A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



the flaraes, and the dove may be the emblem of their „Triumphant husbands*" who 

 have preeeded them to bliss. 



In Malay they say Marapaü , for a dove, Marsden 322 which name answers to the 

 same office of the Dove being let fly at the funeral burning. Mara , C. 519, Müra, 

 C. K38. Death, dying. Pati, C. 355, Lord, master; and thus Mara-pati- Death's 

 Lord, still emblematic of the sacrifice of herself which the widow is about to commit. 

 Bot h the Malay and Sunda people appear thus to have given the Dove its name, from 

 the fact of its being used at the Suttee or self-sacrifice of a widow on the death of 

 her husband. The words have evidently been received from the Hindus. In the case 

 of the Malays they adopted the word Marapali, Death's Lord, and of the Sundas, 

 they adopted Japati, the "Triumphant Lord. 11 



In Malay also the Dove is called „Burung Dara 11 , and in Javanese „Manuk Doro." 

 'Oara, C. 266 is a wife, and thus the Malay and Javanese words mean „the wifes 

 bird 11 — which still applies to the' wife sacrificing herself at the funeral pile of her 

 husband. The word Dara is still preserved in Sunda , and as can be seen means — 

 „a young woman who lias just got her first child" In Malay — Marsden 128 — 

 it means — „a virgin , a maiden 11 — and Dara-dancj , a damsel, so that in Malay the 

 original meaning has been somewhat modified. 



It is not a little remarkable that Indian and Sanscrit names should, in the Eastern 

 Archipelago, have superseded Polynesian names, for neither in Malay, Sunda nor 

 Javanese, does there now thus exist a pure Polynesian name for so common an object 

 as the domestic Dove. 



The name thus applied to the Dove is not in all probability, the common colloquial 

 name in Sanscrit. Clough gives for Dove Parawiya , Paréyiya ; wild pigeon Kobo , 

 Kobéyiya. Lambricks Singhalese vocabulary gives Kobêyiija the small Dove , Para- 

 wiya, the Pigeon; Babagoya, the Dove; Mayilagova, the large Dove. So that the 

 names which have been transplanted into the Polynesian languages from the Sanscrit, 

 are the mystic names applied to the Dove when used at the Suttee of widows. In 

 the Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde, 1853 Page 2 of Berigten , 

 Mr. Friederich explains the word Marapaü for dove as the „Lord of Death 11 in 

 reference to the custom still in use on Bali of letting fly a dove from the head of 

 the widow at the moment she plunges into the gulf of fire, and explains that on 

 Bali this bird is called Titiran , wich is the same as the Perkutut of Batavia and of 

 the Sunda districts , and thus not the common domestic dove. AVhatever may now be 

 the case as to the bird so let loose, there can, from what has been said above, exist 

 no doubt that that bird was originally the common domestic dove. 



With respect to Mr. Friedericlrs interpretation of Bitrung-Barah a bird of blood. 



