464 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Sunat, Arabic, whafc is authorized or allowed. Actions meritorious though not obliga- 

 tory. Sambayang sunat, prayers of super-erogation. 



Sunat, Arabic, circumcision. Sagala islam kuda di sunatan , all Mahomedans must be 

 circumcised. 



Sun da, the Western half of the island called by Europeans generally Java. It extends 

 from Java Head to, and includes the residency of Cheribon , as distinct from the 

 Eastern half of the island, which is Jawa or Java properly so called, and on the is- 

 land itself always meant, when Java is spoken of. Sunda may be derived from the 

 Sunda word Tunda, to set aside , to put by, and Sa or Saha , Clough, 722, a par- 

 tiele and prefix signifying union , association , with , together. In Sunda Sa in the 

 composition of words means also having the proper ty of. The words Saha and Sa 

 and Tunda are contracted into Sa-unda or Sunda, a place of deposit, an entrepot. 

 Hence there is also the word Tundan , to carry by stages , to transport by corvees 

 from one place to another. Sonda, C. 765, is good, excellent, delightful , pleasing, 

 agreeable. There is also Sundara , C. 749, handsome, beautiful, elegant; well , excel- 

 lent, — which would give a Sanscrit etymon for the word, as many other islands in 

 these parts also possess. The Sunda- country would well ra e rit the title of delight- 

 ful, pleasing, agreeable, in the eyes of the people of Coromandel , either from coming 

 from a coast comparatively barren and treeless, or from having successfully perfor- 

 med a long sea-voyage, and meeting with a country that teamed with vegetation to 

 the very brink of the waves. Sundara, C. 759, handsome, beautiful , elegant. Hen- 

 ce Sundara, a name of Kama , the god of love = the handsome one. Sundari , a 

 handsome woman. In the Prianger Iiegencies , south of Bandong, is a Chl Sondari. 

 The natives.of India, coming from the droughty coasts of Coromandel , would be struck 

 with the beauty of the ever-verdant plains and mountains of Java. One of the wives of 

 Silawangi of Pajajaran v/as called Nyai Mantri Manék Mayang Sunda, Raffles , Java, 

 2 vol., page 104, which may be translated, her ladyship the counsellor, the beautiful 

 gem of illusion, or her ladyship of the counsellor, the gem of illusion of Sunda. In 

 Pantuns occurs the name of Kentrik Manik Mayang Sunda, as the heroine of a ro- 

 mantic story. I feel rather inclined to derive Sunda from Tunda: in the Sunda language , 

 to set aside, to put in deposit, so that it may be found and taken here after, and 

 Saha or Sa- Tunda =■ Sa-unda , would i.mply a place of deposit, or , as we would cal t 

 it now a days , an entrepot. I would i ma gin e that this name was given to the West- 

 end of Java, from the natives of the islands having been in the habit of bringing 

 the spices of the Moluccos, and the produco of the Archipelago generally, to thia 

 place to meet the traders from the continent of India. Just outside of the bay of 

 Bantam, there is even now an island called Pulo Tunda. Deposit island, sometimes 

 also called Pulo Babi or II o g island. The suitableness of the position for the ancient 

 trade of the country is proved from the prosperity of the old town of Bantam at a 

 subsequent period and up to the arrival of Europeans round the Cape of Good Hope. 



