embodiment of the total state, just as his palace is a microcosmic copy of the macrocosmos. The king (or a founder of a dynasty) possesses an innate divinity to a far higher degree than ordinary men. Hans Ras in 2001 compared the Pararaton with the Pallava Canggal inscription (732 AD), the Śivagŗha (Siwagrha) inscription (856 AD), the Calcutta Stone (1041 AD) and the Babad Tanah Jawi (1836 AD). These show clear similarities in character, structure and function and also similarity with texts from the Malay historiography. Notes References Further reading J.J. Ras (1986), Hikayat Banjar and Pararaton. A structural comparison of two chronicles. In: C.M.S. Hellwig and S.O. Robson (eds.), A man of Indonesian letters (Dordrecht, Cinnaminson: Foris VKI 121, pp. 184–203), Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan (2020) "How to read a chronicle: the Pararaton as a conglomerate text", Indonesia and the Malay World, 48, pp. 1–22. Asian chronicles 16th-century history books Precolonial states of Indonesia Majapahit