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Indonesia: Figure of Antareja, wayang wulit ('shadow puppet') character from the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana.

Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre (literally 'shadow'). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java. UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003. Anantaraja, or more often abbreviated Antareja, is one of the puppet characters that are not contained in the original Mahabharata, but is the creation of later Javanese literature. He was the eldest son Wrekodara or Bimasena of the Pandavas.
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Indonesia: Figure of Antareja, wayang wulit ('shadow puppet') character from the ancient Hindu epic, Ramayana.
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Wayang is a Javanese word for particular kinds of theatre (literally 'shadow'). When the term is used to refer to kinds of puppet theatre, sometimes the puppet itself is referred to as wayang. Performances of shadow puppet theatre are accompanied by gamelan in Java. UNESCO designated Wayang Kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on 7 November 2003. Anantaraja, or more often abbreviated Antareja, is one of the puppet characters that are not contained in the original Mahabharata, but is the creation of later Javanese literature. He was the eldest son Wrekodara or Bimasena of the Pandavas.
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