@inbook {44455a92da094c56bad78191f98d9a74,
	title = {The Mirror of the Practice: Indic Models Internalized in the Indonesian Archipelago},
	booktitle = {A Lasting Vision},
	year = {2023},
	note = {Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Oxford University Press 2023.},
	month = {jan},
	pages = {412{\textendash}465},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	address = {United Kingdom},
	abstract = {This chapter explores the adaptation of Indic poetic models in Java and Bali, where practice (prayoga) took precedence over theory ({\'s}{\={a}}stra), and where Dandin{\textquoteright}s Mirror and other cultural grammars left little concrete trace. The chapter{\textquoteright}s first part revisits the earliest known work from Java, the Old Javanese R{\={a}}m{\={a}}yaṇa, an adaptation of a Sanskrit poem by Bhatti that teaches grammar and poetics by example. Here the work{\textquoteright}s {\textquotedblleft}ornamental blocks{\textquotedblright} are analyzed for modes of imparting and experimenting with ornaments found in manuals such as Dandin{\textquoteright}s. The second half explores the later history of kakawin literature by focusing on introductory statements by poets and on manuals such as the Life Breath of Poetry (Bh{\={a}}ṣapr{\={a}}ṇa). The chapter shows that technical knowledge about poetry was continuously taught in classrooms in Java and Bali and suggests that kakawin{\textquoteright}s playful internalization of Dandin{\textquoteright}s modularity and openness eventually rendered his Mirror superfluous.},
	keywords = {Bh{\={a}}ṣapr{\={a}}ṇa, Bhatti, Dandin, Kakawin, Old Javanese, Old Javanese R{\={a}}m{\={a}}yaṇa, Ornamental block, Pedagogy, Prayoga, {\'s}{\={a}}stra},
	isbn = {9780197642924},
	doi = {10.1093/oso/9780197642924.003.0009},
	author = {Yigal Bronner and Helen Creese and Hunter, Thomas M.}
}
