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the B for W and vicê versa 1 ' a final ang is also frequently added to words, 

 by which tlie original Wata would become Batang. This appears to be the more pro- 

 bable as this Hari Batang is associated with Maung ; the colloquial Sunda word for the 

 Tiger Royal. Batang may also be a corruption of Déicata , with the initial Dé drop- 

 ped, and ng suffixed. Hari, C. 787 is derived from Hara to take , and is a name of 

 Krishna or Vishnu, Yama or Indra, and the expression Hari batang tulung maung 

 will thus mean — „Oh God Krishna, help me oh Tiger". Batang Jala may mean the 

 God of magie or delusion. Jala C. 210 magie, conjuring, illusion , supernatural de- 

 ception. Throughout Java till this moment the natives have a superstitious reverence 

 for the Tiger royal, and will not hurt or kill it, unless it first has dosa or sin, and 

 has killed a human being, or some of his Cattle. Batang is the name of a place and 

 districts on the north coast of Java in the residency of Pakalongan , where the Prahu 

 mountains come down near the shore. In these same Prahu mountains are found many 

 remnants and remains of temples from Hindu times , and the name of Batang may 

 perhaps be in some way connected with the Divinities there formerly worshipped. Ano- 

 ther name of a place in this locality which attracts attention as being of Hindu origin 

 is Sraman near Simbang. Clough Page 778 gives Sramana , from Srama to perform 

 acts of austere devotion- an Ascetic , one devoted to meditation for the purpose of ob- 

 taining final emancipation from existence; a Buddhist ascetic, a beggar , a religious 

 mendicant, a Buddhist priest. 



Batang may also be explained as derived from Bata C. 455 descent, going down, 

 descent from a hight. To the Sanscrit Bata the Polyne sian Ng may have been added 

 as a termination , and Batang may mean the low land , th e low country along the 

 foot of the lofty and sacred Prahu mountains. see also Balibat. 



Batara, The Hindu Godhead. The Sundanese apply the designation to all the divinities, 

 as Batara Guru, the chief Hindu God worshipped on Java, Batara Bisnu, Batara Ga- 

 na or Ganesa &c. Guru among the Hinclus was a kind of spiritual guardian of youth, 

 one of the names of Brihaspati , the preceptor of the Gods - Clough Page 178. Bata- 

 ra Guru, however , on Java appears to have been the chief Hindu Deity worshipped, 

 but whether Siwa or Vishnu is not evident. Crawfurd dissertation or Malav graiïimer 

 Page 238 says that, on the authority of Professor Wilson , no doubt the Hindu god 

 intended was Vishnu. 



A watara , C. 51. awa , down, tara to cross or pass: a descent, this word is used by 

 most of the oriental nations to express the incarnation of their deities , or their descent 

 from heaven to Earth ; and in Hindu history it particularly refers to the incarnation 

 of Vishnu in ten principal forms , viz 1 , the fish- 2 , ilie tortoise- 3 the boar- 4 the 

 man-lion- 5 the dwarf- 6 and 7 the two Ramas 8. Krishna- 9 Buddha, and 10 Kalki- 

 see Bisnu. (Cf. Oesana Bali Tdsch. Ned. Ind. IX. 3.257. Fr.). 



Batari, a female goddess ; the female of Batara. 



