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of the country. For the meaning of Wi, see voce. Dan, C. 255/6 agift, adonation , 

 an offerino-; Paddy; clothing to cover the Pudendum muliebre; the name of a tree 

 (Calyptranthes) of which there are several species and yield a fruit much eaten by the 

 natives. Dana, C. 256, riches, wealth , property, possessions; people , mankind; birth, 

 orio-in. CM Sidani; the Si may be the ordinary Sunda preposition which see: and in 

 this case prefixed to the feminine of Dana ^ Dani. Sidani , she who gives wealth , 

 prosperity, by inundating the rice fields in the neighbourhood of the old capital of 

 Pajajaran, where tradition relates that the first Sawahs were made, and it will be seen 

 above that one of the acceptations of Dan is Paddy, and in this sense Chi-Si-Dani 

 would be the river which gives or has, produces or appertains to Paddy. 



The Hinclu people who cut the Sanscrit inscription on the rock on Jambu , at Pasir 

 Koléan o-kak, mio-ht have introduced the system of irrigatecl rice-lands , and called so 

 laro-e a river as the one in question Si Dani, or her of the Paddy, personifying the 

 river which gave the water, as the gram-producer or Ceres. 



Dhani, C. 298, is a rich and opulent man, and Chidhani or Chi-Si-Dani would be 

 the river typical of opulence either from irrigating the land or from admitting foreign 

 traders at its mouth. (Ddnin, Nominative case deint, would be possessing , affording 

 gifts. Fr). 



C h i d u h , spittle , saliva . 



Chiduhan, to spit upon with con tempt. 



Chidurian, The name of the great river of Jasinga. It rises very far back amongst the 

 Këndang mountains , and discharges itself into the sea at Chikandé near Tanara. The 

 etymon of the word cannot be Durian , the fruit so called in Malay , Duino Zibethinus 

 as this . in the Country through which it flows , is called Kadn. As however , in the 

 Mountainous part of the Country where it exists , many Sanscrit names are used to 

 designate the objects of nature , as districts and mountains , so also perhaps a Sanscrit 

 origin must be sought for to elucidateits meaning. Dura, C. 282, far, distant, remote. 

 Fa, G. 572 going, proceeding. ?a is the crude form of the verb ^anawa to go, and 

 forms Tanta to go , Yana , going : thus Dura-yana , and with suppression of the final 

 vowel , Dura-yan , would be the river which goes remotely , which has a long course , 

 and which will apply very well to this river which travels , in the early part of its 

 route, through such distant and sequestered mountain ravines. The transition from 

 Dura-yan to Durian or Duriyan with a people who were not conscious of the etymon 

 of the word, would be very easy, and is heard also similarly in Mada-yon^ Madion, 



Chih, a word of contempt, for shame! Pshaw! fie! 



C h i h u j a n , rain water. 



Chik, the idiomatic expression of interrogation ; how now? how is it to be? a persuasive 

 interrogatory , as we would say, come! Chik kumaha? come! how is it to be. Chik 

 also means, said, affirmed as Chik batur, my companion said so. 



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