22 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



The Dayaks are still fond of possessing large earthenware jars for religious pur- 

 poses , and the Sunda people often teil you of mysterious jars having been found 

 at Balais or sacred spots amongst the mountains. (16). 

 Ari, If, in case that, now supposing that; Ari daik , chokot bal, if youlike, you have only 



to take it. 

 Aria, or A r i y a , a rank of office below Tumunggung 



Aryya- C. 48. a Person of eminence, a man of worth , a master. 

 Ayrya- C. 64, a term of high respect, of veneration , and applied to persons of high 

 descent. One of the names of Buddha , but particularly applied to the priests of Bud- 

 dha. In the Pali form it is called Ariya- C. G4. (Artja with long a, o/ agoodfa- 

 müy , Skr., is in the old time of Bali (and Java) one of the titles of the Xatri- 

 yas. Fr.) 

 Ariya Bang'a, a character in ancient Javanese history, connected with the foundation of 

 Majapahit and Pajajaran, and elder brother of Chiung Wanara. See Raffles 2 vol P. 100 

 Ariya Bang'a having settled at May'apahit. Bang'a C. 486. breaking, splitting, a fissure, 

 a division , defeat , discomfiture. Ariya Banga was probably so called from breaking 

 or splitting the country into two separate dominions. 

 Ariya Damar, the son of Angka Wijaya, the last kin-g of Majapahit, by a witch of 

 the Gunung Lawu. He was an enterprising youth and was sent by his father in com- 

 mand of an army against Bali, in consequence of which Bali became tributary to Ma- 

 japahit. Ariya Damar was subsequently appointed to be chief of Palembang on Suma- 

 tra. To Palembang he carried the Champa Princess , who had been married to the king 

 of Majapahit (his father?) and who had by him a son called Raden Patah. This prin- 

 cess had subsequently another son by Ariya Damar , called Raden Husen , and these 

 two brothers were instrumental in upsetting Hinduism in Java , and introducing Mo- 

 hammedanism. Rafnes vol 2 Pages 115/117. 

 Ari- ari, as Tali-ari-ari, the after birth. 

 Arip-ar: intelligent, wise, acute, skilfuL 



Ari-raya, a holiday, a festive occasion. This is Malay, but still often used by the Sun- 

 das. Itajja in Achinese is great, and the Malays may have borrowed the expression 

 from them, and it will thus mean „the Great day". 



(16) Argha is not only a mode of loorshipx an oblation (of eiglit ingredients) , Wilson: but also the 

 vessel where such oblations are placed in. It appears nearly always in coojunction witli the Lingga 

 and Joni, (the latter forming even part of the Argha) and leads us with some ccrtainty, principally 

 in olden times, to distinguish the worship of Siva, in his mean (originally Dekhanic) from, The 

 mountain called » town of the Argha", is not far from the city called Probolhigo » the illustriou» 

 linga" (Prabha — lingga.) Cf. Moore Hindu Pantheon p. 385 sqq. and plates 83. 84. 85. and princi- 

 pally 86. Besides the Sandhya or daily prayers of' the Brahmins by Mrs. Belnos Plate 13. 



