work "Kakawin Arjunawijaya"

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"Kakawin Arjunawijaya" is a 14th-century Old Javanese epic poem by Mpu Tantular that adapts episodes from the Indian Ramayana into a Majapahit-era cultural and political context.

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instanceOf Old Javanese literary work ⓘ
kakawin ⓘ
poetic adaptation of the Ramayana ⓘ
adaptationFocus integration of Indian epic material into Javanese political ideology ⓘ
adaptationStrategy localization of Ramayana episodes to Javanese context ⓘ
associatedKingdom Majapahit ⓘ
linked to: Majapahit Empire
associatedReligion Buddhism ⓘ
Hinduism ⓘ
author Mpu Tantular ⓘ
authorAlsoKnownFor Kakawin Sutasoma ⓘ
basedOn Ramayana ⓘ
circulation court manuscript tradition ⓘ
countryOfOrigin Java ⓘ
culturalFunction expression of Majapahit court ideology ⓘ
culture Javanese ⓘ
dateWritten 14th century ⓘ
genre court epic ⓘ
historicalContext Majapahit era ⓘ
influencedBy Indian Sanskrit literature ⓘ
Javanese court culture ⓘ
language Old Javanese ⓘ
linked to: Kawi (Old Javanese)
literaryForm narrative poetry ⓘ
literaryImportance major work of Majapahit-era kakawin literature ⓘ
literaryPeriod Majapahit literary period ⓘ
literaryTradition Javanese kakawin tradition ⓘ
mainSourceTradition Indian epic tradition ⓘ
medium palm-leaf manuscript (lontar) in historical transmission ⓘ
meter kakawin meter ⓘ
narrativeSource episodes from the Ramayana ⓘ
partOf Old Javanese Ramayana corpus ⓘ
placeOfComposition Majapahit court ⓘ
politicalFunction legitimation of Majapahit kingship ⓘ
region Southeast Asia ⓘ
religiousContext Hindu-Buddhist syncretism ⓘ
script Old Javanese script ⓘ
linked to: Javanese script
studiedIn Indonesian literary history ⓘ
Old Javanese philology ⓘ
comparative epic studies ⓘ
theme dharma (righteousness) ⓘ
kingship ⓘ
order versus chaos ⓘ
war and heroism ⓘ

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Mpu Tantular → knownFor → work "Kakawin Arjunawijaya" ⓘ