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the Java minor being Sumatra, as nearer India, though larger in bulk tlian the more 

 distan t Java major or Java of the present day. 



At Singapore, they to this da}*, talk of an Ancjin Jawa as blowing from the Sumatra 

 shore, and which assuredly can never be meant to come from the Java of Batavia, 

 at a distance of eight degrees of latitude. (56) 



Jawab, arabic, to answer, to reply. Answer, response, (c-jLa- Jaioab, an answer.) 



Jawel, to snap or bite at, as a dog or tiger does. 



J awér, a cock's comb. Jawêr hotok , a cocks comb. 



Jawér kotok, name of a plant, Plectranthus Scutellaroides of the family of Labiatie. 

 Very coramon in gardeus- leaves red in the middle and green along the edges. Has 

 a sraall blue flower. Scutellaroides- buckler shaped, perhaps from the leaves overlap- 

 ping each other and presenting a dense even foliage. The leaves are sometimes enti- 

 rely of a dark dull red. 



Jawér kotok, name of a plant Celosia Christata of the family of Amaranthacese. The 

 leaves like those of the preceding plant, are also red in the center and green on the 

 edges. It bears a handsome scarlet comb terminal to the stem, and is altogether a 

 very ornamental plant. 



Jaya, victory, victorious; successful. Jaya, C. 206, victory, conquest, triumph. 



Jaya Baya, triumphant in troubles; name of an ancient King of Java, whose seat of 



government was at Da/ta in the province of Kadiri. Raffles 2 Vol Pages 80/81 as- 



sïgns as the date of his accession Anno Javse 800 -=i AD. 878; and Anno Javse 701 



■=j AD. 779. (Bhaya is fear, and frightful, horrible; so the name implies „feared 



by his victories. 1 '' Fr.) 



Jaya Kusuma, the trinmphant flower; the fiower of victory, is another name in Java- 

 nese history for Panji or Ina Karta Pati. 



Jayaning Rat, a name of Arjuna in the Mahabarat, and the title with wich the sove- 

 reigns of Solo and Jugjo bedeck themselves — the triumphant in the Land. 



Jayak, to accompany in procession, to escort a great man with ceremony. To support 

 a person either walking or swimming in the water. (Cf. Ajak.) 



J a y a n g S e k a r , the rlowers of victory , a native soldiery so called kept in some parts 

 of the interior of Java. (It is rather Jayéng sëkar, contracted from Jaya ing sëkar. Fr.) 



J a y i t , to take up out of water ; to take out of water any thing which has been put therein 

 to soak. 



Jebléh, having the lower lip sticking out, or projecting outwards horizontally like a flat 

 saucer. (Batav. idem.) 



(56) In an Inscription of the year Saka 1216 (or 1215), see Raffles 2d. ed, Plate 85, the island 

 is called Yawadwipa. Taioa is a kind of corn- baiiey. Jawa, as at present pronounced is thus a 

 corruption — y becoming j is very coramon in all Indian languages. Fr. 



