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Kawi language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (160 words) |
 | Kawi (from Sanskrit: kāvya, "poet") is a language from the islands of Java, Bali and Lombok. |
| It is actually a literary language based on Old Javanese, but heavily interlarded with Sanskrit loanwords. |
| Kawi is extinct as a spoken language, but is still used in Bali, Lombok and to some extent in Java as a literary language. |
| Balinese Religion (1337 words) |
| The first inscriptions are of the ninth century CE and are written in Sanskrit and Old Balinese with an Indian alphabet by court scribes and are addressed to specific villages and monasteries, giving evidence that the rulers supported a variety of Hindu and Buddhist sects. |
| The old Balinese nature god, the great earth serpent Anantaboga, with "indianisation" was symbolically buried in the Balinese earth, his head at the centre of the island underneath the crater lake of Batur and his tail touching the sea at Keramas. |
| Old gods such as Twalen and Hindu gods are popularly represented in the wayang, the shadow play. |
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