IN THE ISLAND OF BALI; u$ 



adventurers introduced among the barbarous and lavage tribes; of the 

 orientaliflands (fee note -B.) 



With a thorough convi6lion of my own incompetence to decide 

 on this queftion, I have endeavoured to coUedl the materials to enable 

 the oriental fcholar to do fo, and have for this purpofe appended to 

 my effay a fhort vocibulary of Kawi words, and an extradt from the 

 Kawi Mahabharat, with an Englijk verfion made through the medium 

 of the common Javaneje language. The tranflation is I hope as faith- 

 €u\ .as .can be expected under fuchcircum fiances. (See Note e .) 



All Kawi compofition is in regular meafured verfe, * of which thene 

 rare twelve radical flanzas, from which a variety of others may be form- 

 ed., according to eftabhfhed rules of profody, Thefe rules are, I ima- 

 ;gine, borrowed from thofe in ufe in India. To enable the Sanjcrit 

 dTcholar to judge, I fpecify the names of the 12 radical flanzas which 

 are as follow : Sardula-wikundita^ Jayaditaf Wahirat, Bafanta-tilata, 

 Wanfapatra, Srakdara, Sakarine, Swandana, Chavipakamcdya, Prawirt^ 

 Jatitaj Danda^ and Katri- padma.f 



The moH popular and efleemed work in Kawi is the' J JBrata-yuda or 

 holy war, which I imagine is the great Indian poem the Maliabiiarat, or ra* 

 ther ^parapiirafe of it. The Javanefe imagine it to be an original work, and 

 do not fcruple %o point out on Java the fite of || Ajlina and the various 

 fcenesof the-wars of the Mahabliarat, Th.Q,Brata-yuda was compofed (£ 



• Tl is confirms the etymological affinitv between the word Katjui, and the San/crUiCimi.Ca'ni i poet* aud 

 ,Cai'ja poetical compofiiiun. — iVaAf hj the Secretary. 



t Of h*- forms here rnumerafed eight are decidedly j*c*/-/;r, viz. Sa'rdula nj'tcti'dita, Vafanta tllacd% 

 ^atifapatra, ^r/igdhara, .^khdrini, Champcca mala, Pravara la'ita, iind Dan'd'a; (fre the tabic annexed 

 to Mr. CioLeBuooKE's eflay on San/crit and Fracru Foeiry, A. K. vol. lo, p. 468); ths rettiainng 

 four havr every !<pi>< aiance of being Sa,j/cnr terms, though h- cliange they may liave uudc-gonc both in ihcw 

 jiriMiuncLitian, i.nd in the written exprelhan of the founds, makes ii difficult to verity ih tn. — Ditto. 

 '' X Prohahiy, a corruotiun of Bha'rata, the lauiHy ot Bha&ata, iiwongil wbofe dcfc-ciidauis the war occur», 

 m^jiidJha war. — Ditto. 



{) IL'Jlwapur ancient Dchlt^ Qt a city about 50 milei No E. of the modem cj{/ of Dcbli; Va capUilflf 



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