Hikayat Pandawa Lima

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title:		Hikayat Pandawa Lima
edition:		Khalid M. Hussain (ed.), Hikayat Pandawa Lima, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1992. Siri Warisan Sastera Klasik.
manuscript:		Brandes 2, Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia, Jakarta.
dates:		text:  perhaps 1350-1400 (Brakel), not later than early 1700s (Braginsky), 1700s (Khalid);    manuscript:  unknown.
provenance:		text:  unknown;    manuscript:  Batavia (or Java).
words:		85722 words.
references:		to the pages (1-274) of the underlying manuscript, as indicated in the printed edition, and then to the lines of the printed edition.

 

Editorial notes and bibliography

The underlying manuscript is very probably Brandes 2, though in 1992 confusingly Khalid stated that its text is “almost the same” (hampir sama) as Brandes 2.

Khalid’s edition is the only published text of the Malay version of the Mahabharata epic.

Khalid discusses the dating of the text at length in his "Pengantar".  He prefers a later date, perhaps in the sixteenth or seventeenth century;   however Brackel and Creese argue persuasively for an earlier date.  A further argument for an older date is that this Malay version is based on the Old Javanese kakawin version of the story, not the modern Javanese version.

References:

•  Khalid M. Hussain (ed.), Hikayat Pandawa Lima, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1992, "Pengantar", pp.xi-xix.

•  Khalid M. Hussain (ed.), Hikayat Pandawa Lima, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 1964, "Pendahuluan", pp.vii-ix.

•  V.I. Braginsky, The Heritage of Traditional Malay Literature: a historical survey of genres, writings and literary views, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2004. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 214, pp.115, 144-152 (including a summary of the plot),

•  Liaw Yock Fang, Sejarah Kesusasteraan Klassik, rev. ed., Singapura: Pustaka Nasional, 1982, pp.58-64.

•  R.O. Winstedt, A History of Classical Malay Literature, 2nd ed., Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1969, pp.37-39, 208-226 (referring to the text as "Hikayat Pandawa Jaya").

•  M.C. Ricklefs & P. Voorhoeve, Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain, a catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in public collections, Oxford University Press, 1977, p.133

 

Preparation

Added:  July 2007

The text was scanned in Canberra by the MCP using Recognita™ OCR, and adapted for use in the project.  Minor corrections of typographic errors have been made.