264 A DICTIONAEY SUNDANESE 



M a li o m é t , vide Mohammad. 



Mahugi, to make lore- presents; to carry presents to the intencled one. 



Maido, to disbelieve, not to put trust in. Sok maido lamun ka kult, he never believes 

 what I say. See Paido. 



Ma in, to play, to have motion as a piece of machinery. To play for money, to gamble. 

 To play- in the sense of seeking amusement, is not main in Sunda, as in Malay, 

 but Ulin. 



Maisa, a title applied to the ancient chiefs or kings on Java, both at Janggala and 

 Pajajaran. As Maisa Laléan occurs at the former place Eaffles Yol 2 Page 94 and 

 Browijaya Maisa Tandraman occurs at the latter. Saffies Yol. 2 page 96. The word 

 means buffaloe. MaJiisa., C. 533, a buffaloe. MahisJia, C. 533 from Maha , to wor- 

 ship ; a buffaloe, the emblem and vehicle of Yama; the name of an Asura or demon 

 slain by Durga. Mahishi, C. 533. a female buffaloe; the wife of a king, but especial- 

 lv the one wko lias been consecrated or crowned. A queen. 



Mahisa or JcZbo , both words implying buffaloe, are ancient appellations of the 

 Kshatryas on Java. Friederich , Bat. Trans. Yol. 23 page 21. 



Maisa, is a title of sorae of the Chiefs in early Javanese history. Thus we have Kuda 

 or Maisa Laléan, to whom one of the discrepant accounts ascribes the foundation of 

 Pajajaran. He is said to have tamed the buffaloe to the yoke, from which circumstance 

 he was called Maisa or the buffaloe , whilst his decendants went by that of Munding , 

 which is the buffaloe in colloojrial Sunda. Maisa, however, is no doubt the I\lahésa of 

 Clough Page 534, from Maha, great , and Isa, Lord, or god, and as such an appel- 

 lation of Siiua , which cognomen had been applied to a distinguished prince who had 

 either founded a new empire or taught the people the use of agriculture. M^aisa , a 

 name of Siwa , might have been applied to the buffaloe as taking the place of the sa- 

 cred buil of that deity , which is still obseiwable in some of the old monumental ruins 

 in Eastern Java. 



Mahésa , however the case may be , passed for a buffaloe in ancient Javanese times, 

 thus we have Jlahesasura, the demon in the form of a buffaloe slain b}~ the Hindu 

 <roddess Duro-a. 



Maja, a large forest tree, with reticulate and aromatic fruit. Aroraadendron elegans. 

 Maja, a liane which produces a round fruit of the size of a man's fist, Crataeva marme- 

 los , has a hard shell , but contains a soft inside , which can be easily removed like the 

 contents of an egg. The word lias a Sanscritical sound , and from the nature of the 

 fruit may be so called from Majja, C. 505. tnarrow , pith, sap. From tliis Maja, 

 the old capital of Java — Majapalnt , deiïved its name (Majapahit is a translation of 

 Wilwa-tikta , the Scr. name of the same place. Wilwa is Aegle marmelos, tikta is the 

 same as the Polynesian pahit, bitier. Fr). 

 Maja, used in the expression. i\ista, maja, idama , three methods of warning which ave 

 considered by the natives as a sufficiënt display of patience. The Maja in this c. se 



