Important, we can suppose that dancing in Kalimantan at that time was religious nod sacral in nature, and as the palaces of the kings were the centres of all cultural -activities, dancing in Kalimantan at tile beginning of tile Hindu-Indonesian period was also feudal. None of the Kalimantan kingdoms, neither Hindu-Kalimantan nor Islamic have left any products of dancing. The Kalimantan dances which are still preserved are those of the, people of the Dayak tribes living inland.

And she did not want to let him go. But his plea was so urgent the she had to permit him to go, that tears streaming down her cheeks. Rara Mendut, seeing that Pranacitra had come to serve Wiraguna, invented a device to be able to meet her lover continuously. Tumenggung Wiraguna, not knowing that he would never be able to come any closer to her, was filled with delight.

There are two kinds of priests of the Hindu-Dharma religion, i. the pedanda and the pemangku The podanda is a fully qualified Hindu priest who only works at the special festivities which inaugurate the annual purification of the village from demons and evil spirits.

Kumbakarna, who actually does not agree with Rahwana, s conduct, still feels very sad seeing his sister and Cousin die. He still wishes to show his loyalty to his country. Rushing forward to the battle- field, lie is attacked by an army of apes, all of whom are beaten even Laksmana is beaten. Only when Rama appears armed with bow and arrows that Kumbakarna dies as a hero. Wibisana is then crowned by Rama to succeed his brother.

At present, neither the bedaya nor the srimpi is so popular among the majority of the people. However, they are still cultivated continuously being given new choreographies and made more dynamic. Next there emerged in Surakarta other compositions of Javanese operas, the langen asmara and pranasmara. The langen asmara, which comes from the word langen meaning entertainment and the word asmara -meaning love, is a Javanese dance-opera Surakarta style, composed by Prince Prabu Widaya, son of King Paku Buwana.