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Jambu a'yër ma war, the Rosewater Jambu. Jambosa Vulgaris, a fragrant variety and 

 (rood eating. 



Jambu bol, has large red fruits like apples. It is tbc Jambosa Macropbylla, from its 

 larcre leaves and is tbe best of tbe whole tribe. 



Jambu Dipa, a name given to India in ancient lore or tradition , but the natives now 

 adays caunot teil to where it originally belonged. A place in the Priangër Regencies 

 is still so called. Clough at page 206 gives- Jambu Dwipaya, from Jambu the Rosé 

 apple , and Dwipaya , an island or country. According to the geography of the Hin- 

 dus, the name of the Central division of the universe or the known world ; but accor- 

 ding to the Buddhists it is the continent of India, or more strictly India proper, or 

 India within the Ganges, it being generally reckoned by them as the scène of the la- 

 bours of Buddha. (Dwipa not Dwipaya is the Scr. name for island.) 



Jambu Médé, Anacardium Occidentale, of the family of Terebintacea). The Cashew 

 apple. Also called Kaju. 



Jambu Siki, the seedy Jambu; the guava. Psidium pomiferum , of the family of Myrtaceas. 



Jambul, a tuft of hair, a topping; a tuft of feathers. In shaving a lad's head, a tuft 

 is often left on the back part of the head, and this is called Jambul. (Mal. Jav. id.) 



Jami, the Paddy straw after the grain has been beaten off. See Jerami. Rmnpah jami, 

 harvest home, literally treading the straw under foot, as natives do when reaping. 

 Crop time. 



Jami, a humah made a second year consecutively. When a piece of aboriginal forest is 

 cut down, a second year's crop can mostly be taken from it. Probably called Jami 

 from the paddy straw of the former crop, which has to be cleared away, before a 

 second planting can take place. 



Jampang, a district near the Palabuan Ratu in the Priangër Regencies, derives its name 

 from Si Jampang, a character in ancient Javanese history, See Raffies vol 2. P. 103. 



Jampang, name of a variety of grass. 



Jampang pa hit, name of a variety of bitter grass. 



J a m p é , an invocation ; a prayer muttered over any person , being or thing in order to 

 produce some beneficial result. An incantation. The native method of administering 

 medicine which is always clone by, at the same time, muttering a prayer or incanta- 

 tion either over the medicine or over the person who is ill. 



Mr. Friederich considers that Jawpé is derived from Japya , in Sanscrit , what is to 

 be muttered , from the root Jap to mutter prayers. 



Japa> Clough 205 an offering to a demon, the muttering of prayers at offerings to 

 demons ; repeating in audibly charms , the names of gods and demons , on certain reli- 

 gious occasions : the practice of Hindu religioiis mendicants to count in silence the 

 beads of a rosary. 



The original word is thus much corrupted on Java, an m having been inserted in 



