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Synopsis A volume dedicated to the many-splendoured culture of Indonesia with contributions by scholars from Australia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Netherlands, Soviet Union, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States of America. It deals with music and magic, law and jurisprudence, visual performances and sculptural representations, text and temple, Saivism and Buddhism, poetry and canons of art, verb structure and verse in Javanese, Hinduism and economics, the sacral concept of state and Javanese mysticism, influence of wayang on Russian rod-puppets, iconography and re-identification of Chandi Mendut. The volume is offered as a tribute to the late Dr. Mrs. Sharada Rani, who edited Old Javanese texts like the Slokantara and Wratisasana. She the ephemeral has closed her eyes to open to the silence of statues that sleep in the light of her being. She strove to give the world new eyes to see the heart-work of Indonesia's culture, so that in the Urgrund of the celestial relative of these myriad isles, humanity may renew and refresh the emblems of the unknown.