Sanghyang siksakanda ng karesian

Sanghyang siksakanda ng karesian is a didactic text, providing the reader with all kinds of religious and moralistic rules, prescriptions and lessons. The tittle means something like “Book of rules for the state of resi (wise or holy man)”. This texts is preserved in the National Library in Jakarta and identified as kropak 630; it consist of 30 nipah leaves. The manuscript is dated in a chronogram nora catur sagara wulan (0-4-4-1), that is Saka 1440 or 1518 AD. It had already been referred to in earlier publications by Holle and Noorduyn. A complete edition with translation, introduction, commentary and glossary was presented in a stenciled work by Atja and Danasasmita (1981a). It has been republished in book-form in Danasasmita et al. (1987:73-118). [cite book
last =Noorduyn
first =J.
publisher= KITLV Press
title = Three Old Sundanese poems
date =
year =2006] The text is from Galuh (one of capital city of Sunda Kingdom).

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See also

* Sunda kingdom
* West Java