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WacïicJnja, C. 634, success, prosperity, literally : ancient prosperity, old luck. 

 Para puaclii , of the number of the Puachi, Vv'liich may have been a designation of 

 lower household penates. See Acid. In general terms Puachi means fairies , geniï 

 male or female; supernaturally endowed beings. 



Puachi Rumbayang Jati, the genius who presides over dyeing cotton yarn of a 

 red colour. Hambha, C. 5S6, one of the Apsaras or courtezans ofSwarga. Hyang , 

 divinity. Jatya, C. 210, well born , of goodfamily; — thus the goddess , the courtezan 

 divinity who is of good birth , — who is invoked to lend her aid in making so difficult 

 yet fine a dye as the Eed for cloth. The Bumba is probably an easy corruption of 

 Pambha. 



Puak, to fart. 



Pua-pua, a person with a frizzled head of hair. A negro of the Indian Archipelago. 

 This word may be a duplication of the word Puiua, C. 411, former, prior, ancient, 

 the Elu form of Parwa,- — and might have originally been used , by the people from 

 Continental India, to designate the former inhabitants of the land, whom civilization 

 tended to drive Eastwards. In Malay they are called Puwah-puwah or Papuwali, — vide 

 Crawfürd in voce, — which latter is the same word with the usual preposition Pa, 

 and in that language means the woolly headed race of men who now inhabit New 

 Guinea or Papua. A small population of these woolly headed black negroes still 

 exists on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal , and some also linger in the 

 Malayan Peninsula under the name of Samang and Bila; but from Sumatra, Java, 

 Borneo and Celebes they have disappeared , nor is there even a tradition that they 

 ever existed there , though a curliness in the hair of many natives would seem altnost 

 to indicate a tracé of such original connexion. 



Puas, or Puwas, efficiënt, satisfactory as to strength or other requirements. Likely 

 to answer any purpose. Panggxlingan puas amat , a mill that is complete and fit for 

 work. Puru, C. 410, much, many, exceeding; Asa, C. 65, wish, desire; — con- 

 tracted into Pinvas , exceeding desire, all that you can desire. 



Puasa, fasting, abstaining from food. Puwasa , C. 412, greediness, avarice, covetous- 

 ness, miserliness. Bulan Puasa, or the fasting month, is also known by the Arabic 

 name of Ramalan, which is the ninth Mahomedan month, during which do Maho- 

 medan may eat or drink, whilst the sun is above the horizon. From the above San- 

 scrit derivation we may infer, that the professors of Hinduism on Java, or in the Ar- 

 chipelago, derided the early Mahomedans with their fast, attributing it to mere miser- 

 liness not to eat in the day time. As Hindu worshippers they had also their absti- 

 nence or penance , which they called Tapa , by which was meant fasting entirely both 

 night and day. See Tapa. 



Puchat, pale in colour, wan; pale or sallow from illness. 



Puchuk, the outermcst end of a branch; the top branchlets of a tree. The tender s'prouts 

 or shoots of any leafy plant coming up out of the grouncl, as paddy. The fresh 

 leaves of a palm tree, as they are developed from the spadix. Leaf buds. 



