Prince Madrais Alibasa Manuscript No. 59

The manuscript No.59 is written in a set of loose folios. The size is 34 x 21.5 cm. The condition of paper is brittle, perforated, torn, taped and yellowing. The ink penetrates to the reverse side. There are some missing words caused by torn. In this manuscript, Prince Madrais explains his spiritual teaching. Human beings whose feeling and thinking are dead is not like when they were descendend to the world. They do not know the true God and His law any more. When there was an agreement among the spirits to rewrite everything in books with Javanese letters, it was inteded to turn back human beings into their true identity to each nation. Many people are lost in life and death. The religion of Java explain the balance law of nature and human, how to cultivate the desire, feeling and thinking into humanity sense, being harmonious with other people based on the country’s law. In addition, it is told also that Prince Madrais got a trust to show what should do by human beings. This task was so hard but he conducted it little by little. He thought that we should make agreement for unity of the world that all nations are equals. Besides, he also taught how to plant rice and onions.

Extent and format of original material: File 59: 106 pages of folios.

Owner(s) of original material: Prince Djatikusumah, Ratna Gumilang Damiasih.

Author/Scribe: Prince Madrais Sadewa Alibassa Kusuma Wijayaningrat.

The material is written in Cacarakan (Sundanese-Javanese) script.