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Barumbuns;, Pacldy straw next the ear- each individual stalk. 



Bar una. Var una, the deity of the Hindu mythology who presides over the ocean , and 

 over rain. Waruna C. 625 the deity of the waters and regent of the west. "Water 

 or the ocean. 



Barus, the name of a place on the West coast of Sumatra where the best camphor is 

 produced , lience called Kapur Barus ^ Barus lhne. 



Ba sa, speech, language; behaviour, manners. Baset Sunda, the Sunda language. Basajero, 

 refiried language , the language used about courts or towards great men , and corres- 

 ponds with the Basa Dalam of the Malays. see Jëro. To bogah basa , he has no man- 

 ners; literally he does not know how to select his words. Basa, C. 465 and Bhasa, 

 C. 493, word, speech, dictum. 



Basa, points to some particular act or time. Eukeur basa orang hagunung , at the period 

 when we went to the mountains. It is probably only the former word in a modified 

 acceptation. (It might be ivEsa, house, habitation, from roas, to dweil; the given 

 example would in this case to be explained : at the time 10e dwellecl in the moun- 

 tains. Fr.). 



B a s a r , the power of God to see all things , all-seeing. 



Basëuh, wet, moist- Samping na baseuh, his body cloth is wet. 



Ba si, a large disli for a joint; a platter, a large bowl. 



Ba ska t, a sort of waitscoat; a close garment for the breast This sounds like a corruption 

 of the English word waist coat. It ties with strings on both the right and left breast. 



Basuki, a place and residency at the East end of Java, so called affcer the Indian Serpent 

 king Wasiüd , who in Indian and Balinese mythology accompanies Siwa , and is a con- 

 spicuous character. Bat. Trans. Vol 23 Page Page 24. Basuki on fiali is one of the 

 Sad-kahyangan or six temples, and is situatecl at the foot of the Gunung Agung in Ka- 

 rano; Asam. Bat. Trans. Friederich Vol 22. 



Bata, a brick, a building material. 



Ba tal, love and affection broken and dissol ved; to become unclean and unlawful. 



Ba tang, appears to be a nearly obsolete designation for a Deity, or for some superior 

 being connected with old superstitions. The word is still in use among the Badui of 

 South Bantam , who still adhere to a form of worship partly derived from Hinduism , 

 or the former religion of the Javanese. Thus they talk of the Batang jala or Batang 

 jala , as one of their chief divinities , and with them occurs the expression , when they 

 are in difficulty or much fatigued, of Hari Batang tulung Maung. The word Batang 

 may be a corruption of Batara which see. Wata , C. 617 among other numerous 

 meanings has that of „ a Tiger , the Bengal tiger" or the Tiger Royal. The initial 

 W in the Polynesian tongues is often commuted for B. This mutation is also known 

 in Singhalese , Clough Page 454 under the letter B says — „ Considerable difficulties 

 arise from a custom which has gained both among authors and Copyists substituting 



