m THE RUINS^^F raAMBANA!^ 



tQ the Deccario The year m Cacmiic ^nd Telirfg-a^ was lunar with inter- 

 calations of one month in every thirty, and this was the ancient mode 

 of reckoning alfo on ^dz/^z, and iscib; i^illon £<i(i, as its. name Saca 

 ^if i?rf a Chandra di^'m^ly implies^ 



It is ftill more remarkahie with ref^eS- to the sera, to find the J'^ 

 vanefCf and Balineje, agreeing preCifely^ with the mbm> iit>rthera 

 nations^ of the Deccan, in reckoning the birth of 5fi//Z'a««2; as. itis-know^n^^ 



that the latter differ by one year in th-eir calculations from their fcuth*- 

 cin I neighbours. 



, In- conclufioo I fhall add- that the- worfhip of Buddha, and' of-' 

 Siva, of_ the Linca, and, Yonj,' wereif ■ I am. righcly informed the-r 

 prevailing forms of religion in the Z^^rcdW, in rhe period when we 

 fuppofe, the intercourfe with jfava, to have taken place : the former 

 was perlecLited and nmrly- fuperfcded :by the latter to- whi'Ji we 

 may Jafely aferibe the downlair;4f::the one- on. J^x/a, as evinced b^v 

 the ftriking decay of thezartsv^hidi- accompanied it iand the triumph 

 of the other on ^^/?, whereas I have mentJoned.in a former effaj. 

 it is now the prevailing, form of ^in«^i^z/»»= 



Iyl'Gyacarta May id iSiS^ 



N. B.. I. fhould be wanting in candour, did I not ackno-wledge, thC' 



great affiilance, i have received^ in the compilation of this paper 



!rom the valuable- Eflay of Colonel McKehzie, in the volume of the 



I'ranfaaions of the Batavian Society,. ^ ./ . 



ai'pellations by which 1 h»?e luaid him desiinguislied aie ^aca oir Jje ^aca prououhced /*Je 

 Soco, according, to tha pecmlbr eiimtiication of the Javemss meaiuiiig. '« King Saca"" enJ Ducae 

 Wareh, a name eq.tti?a!<.i>t ,to " offspring of the-.^ftStt*! wfci5Cfe«S X I)«lley0f, «8 l^eltas'the fofmefj oq® 

 sf the ilUes^ ■aiidiit wkich Lie k^kaQwa lals^di^,.. 



