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of this name , and a very rapicl current runs through the adjacent straits. So that the 

 circumstances favor the interpretation which might be given to it from our Sunda Badong. 



Badori, Calotropis gigantea, a shrub which produces a pod , containing a fibre like cotton. 

 It is sometimes called apu - apuan which see. It is called in Malay Biduri see Mars- 

 den Page 59. 



B a d o t , a rancid , stinking he-goat. 



Badui, a small tribe of heathens living among the mountains of South Bantam, who have 

 hitherto resisted the adoption of Mohammedanism. Bedaioi , arabic-rustic; a clown, a 

 Beduin or inhabitant of the Arabian desert. The Bedui of Bantam do not give them- 

 selves this name, but it is applied to them by their Mahomedan neighbours. The Ba- 

 dui call themselves after villages , and have no general name to designate their race. 

 (Arabic ^«Jo bedewiov badui campestris. Meninski). 



Bagal, the root end of any member where it joins upon the body. that part of a plant 

 where it comes out of the ground. Bagal tepus the stump endofatepus plant. Baqal 

 buntut sapi the root end of a cow^ tail. 



Bagal én, name of a Resideucy in the middle of Java, and adjoining the South Coast. 

 Bhaga, C 485, fame, glory^ knowledge ; the absence of passion, the tranquillity of 

 the religious man who has divested himself of all Avorldly excitability ; omnipotence or 

 suprème power; virtue, moral merit, final emancipation. AU, C. 65. a race or family. 

 Bhaga-ali, the race of Devotees. 



Bhaga-ali-an^ Bhagalén, the abode of the race of Devotees. These districts 

 were formerly probably the abode of holy refugees from India. They had in this po- 

 sition the Prawu mountains immediatly to the north of them , and the grand temples 

 of Prambanan , Boro Budur and so many others in the districts adjoining them on the 

 East. See Bagawanta and Serayu. (In the Mahratta country is a district Baqlana. Cf 

 Lassen Ind. Alt. I. p. 148. N. 2). 



Ba ga wan or Bhagawan, a title given to all spiritual persons on Bali. Friederich Bat. 

 Trans, vol 23 p. 8. The word is also used in Ceylon , and in Clough 2 vol. pao- e 486 

 is Bhagawantan , one of the names or generic terms of a Buddha. 



Bagawanta, called according to the peculiarity of Javanese pronunciation Bogowonto. 

 It is the river which runs between the residency of Bagalen and Jugjakarta. 

 Bhaga see voce Bagalen. 

 Wanta, C. 621 subjugated, possessive of. 



The river subjugated to , or possessive of Bhaga. This river is still in so far held sa- 

 cred, that no prince of Java blood may or dare cross it, and its presence often caused 

 to Dipo Negoro and those of the blood royal much trouble in the Java war of 1825/30 (20). 



(20) Bhagawanta is lenghtened from bhagatvat, of which the fuller form is Bhagawant. Fr. 



