The text is named after the village of Giyanti (located east of Surakarta), where the Dutch East India Company (VOC) brokered a treaty to end a brutal succession war. The treaty, signed on February 13, 1755, effectively split the once-unified Mataram empire. Unlike a single-author novel, the Babad Giyanti was composed by multiple court poets ( pujangga ), most notably Yasadipura I (1729–1803), the renowned pujangga of the Surakarta court (Kasunanan). Yasadipura I is considered the Shakespeare of Javanese literature, and his version of the Babad Giyanti remains the most authoritative.
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