Balinese Literature Works Sourcing On Jaya Kuna Literature: Case Genre Geguritan

,, A number of Balinese literary works with the geguritan genre have emerged in the history of Balinese literary works. The emergence of literature in Bali with the genre of geguritan, some directly took the theme of Balinese nature, but most of them took Old Javanese literature as their source ( babon ), then adapted it according to the Balinese literary genre at that time. The existence of this phenomenon, the aim of the study traces the geguritan texts that originate from the Old Javanese epic literature in the Balinese Mahabharata and Kakawin Ramayana, which is called pem-Balian. The method of the research was based on the research from text and field research. Thus, the results show that the existence of Balian serves to transmit the values in Old Javanese texts into the Balinese tradition by incorporating elements of Balinese language, literature and culture, dynamically as an orthogenetic, namely changing intrinsic texts continuously according to developments in the world of politics, history, literature, and Balinese people.