Kawi and kekawin

Abstract

[...]these passages did not amount to much more than an enumeration of the names of kings and high authorities who had been the poets' protectors of the patrons of their poetical work as stated in the initial or final stanzas. [...]it will be more difficult to reconstruct the "historical background" of the Bharatayuddha in its epic form. [...]what we want to know here, in general, is: what is the kekazvin poet like, how does he appear to us, when we study the data of the kekawin themselves. Immediately the question arises: