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Article: Tantri Reliefs on Javanese Candi.
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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By MARIJKE J. KLOKKE. Verhandelingen, vol. 153. Leiden: KITLV PRESS, 1993. Pp. xiv + 323, 11 figures, 100 black-and-white illustrations. $35.
The Tantri reliefs of the title are scenes, carved in stone, depicting stories from (or relating to) those found in the Indian Pancatantra corpus of stories, animal fables usually teaching a moral lesson. These reliefs are on candis, or temples, in Java that date, beginning with two in central Java, from about 800 C.E. and end with a group of thirteen monuments in eastern Java that date from about 1340 to 1450. Thus, the reliefs' appearance is restricted to these two groups, among the many monuments in central Java, and to a ...