religious schools on the slopes of the Merbabu (here called gunung Damalung and Pamrihan), where, as one of the friars, he communicated with hermits and ascetics, following the teachers indicated as dewaguru, pandita, and purusa (593–606). What his mother requests from him is bad, she shows him the way to death and the cemetery, and ultimately to hell (608–624). He goes on to explain his background as a fatherless child, with a mother who went the wrong way, as a consequence of the fact that his grandmother did not uphold the taboos (pantang) when his mother was pregnant: she ate banana flowers and beunteur fish, as well as fish about to spawn, and she suffered from “squirrel convulsion” (625–640). “That is why it has come to this”. Therefore, he feels compelled for good to take leave from his mother (649–650). Second journey Bujangga Manik takes up his bag containing the great book (apus ageung) and the Siksaguru, as well as his rattan walking stick and his whip. He then declares that he is going east again, to the eastern tip of Java where he is going “to look for a place for my grave, to look for a sea to float away, a place for me to die, a place to lay down my body” (663–666). With these dramatic words he leaves the palace and begins his long wandering, never return home again. He continues his journey eastward, mentioning a large number of place names and pointing out the high mountains in Central Java which he sees in the south, some of them bearing the names which are used until the present day. See also Sunda kingdom West Java References External links MS. Jav. b. 3 (R) Images available on Digital Bodleian Sundanese literature Bodleian Library collection Indonesian manuscripts