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Babad Sangkala and the javanese sense of history :
Javanese courtiers no doubt turned to works like Babad Sangkala as simple sources of factual information about the past. It was therefore worth their while to attempt to preserve such historical records accurately. Modern historians are obliged to take such works seriously, as well. Of course all sources - Javanese, European or whetever - must be subjected to rigous historical criticism, including a consideration of the literary and other conventions which influenced them. No sources are, in some abstract sense, perfect. But to dismiss Javanese chronicles as sources of factual historical material, to pretend that one can write Javanese history without serious study of the sources - historical and otherwise - produced by that society, would be like refusing to light a torch in the dark on the grounds that some shadows would still remain.
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