Dear ladies and gentlemen,

This wayang story was about Pandu dadi Ratu (Pandu became a king).

The king of Hastinapura, Prabu Palasara, felt very old enough, yet then he released his crown (lengser keprabon). He transferred his power to his son, Abiyasa. Palasara himself went to the hill for mediation (mendito, resi, begawan).

After several years in his crown, Abiyasa also felt very old enough, and should transfer his crown to his son. He followed his father's step (ikut jejak ayahandanya) going to the hill (bukit, wukir) of Rahtawu to become a pendito/begawan/resi.

Abiyasa had two sons. The elder one was Drestarata. He was blind, so that Abiyasa was in favor to give his crown to his younger son, Pandu.

Pandu himself was rather reluctant (sungkan, risi, rikuh) to be the king, so he left the palace to the forest for mediation to ask Dewa of whether his father's planning to promote him a king was correct or not.

Abiyasa aske his deputy (patih) to seek Pandu in the forest and asked him to return to the palace.

In the forest, accompanied by Semar, Gareng, Petruk, and Bagong, Pandu received some exams (menerima beberapa ujian). First, a wild pig (celeng) attacked him. With his arrow, Pandu killed the celeng that then changed its body to Jagal Abilawa. Abilawa primised to help Pandu if he became a king. A second exam came. A tiger attacked Pandu. Again Panduk killed the attacker with his arrow. The tiger changed its body to Dewa Bayu (Angin=wind), so Pandu was granted a bayu power that Pandu can run as fast as angin. The third attacker came, a couple of wolfs (musang?). Pandu killed them with his arrow. The wolves changed their bodies to Batara Kamajaya and Batari Ratih. They granted Pandu a powerful knife/keris. In addition, they extended the Batara Guru's message that pandu should return home to be the king.

Pandu was ready to go home. At the same time, the patih came and asked pandu to go home. The returned to the palace together. Pandu was innaugurated a king. The sky became dark (mendung), the trees kept silent (pohon-2 diam), the flowers smelt perfume (bunga-2 wangi).

His brother, Destrarata, had 100 sons/daughters called Kurawa. Pandu had three sons with Kunti, and two sons with madrim, totaled five called Pandhawa. Unfortunately, Pandu died young (mati dikala muda), and his sons were still very young (isih bocah, masih anak-2) that they could not be a king.

In this situation, the crown was given back to his brother, Drestarata because he was the heritager (pewaris tahta), but he was blind, so that the crown was given to Kurawa, representated by the oldest son, Duryudana.

Time progressed, day to month, to years, etc. that it came on the time that Pandhawa were adult enough to be the king. As we then knew, that both Pandawa and Kurawa involved in a long life quarrel with the main theme: Pandhawa asked the Hastina kingdom was returned back to them, while Kurawas resisted (bertahan, ngugemi, nggondeli) to govern Kurawa. Both sides were backed up by some other kingdoms. For example, Kresna, the king of Dwarawati, and Mtswapati, the king of Wirata, stayed in pandahawa's side. Meanwhile, Baladewa, the king of Mandura, was mostly in Kurawa's side, together with king Salya from Mandaraka, and Resi/pendito Bisma.