1850.] 



of Continental India, Sfc. 



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high value; and unquestionable authenticity, in all its leading 

 statements. It is full of matter on the subject in question. 



There is some probability that the name itself was applied by 

 Hindu colonists from a kind of grain, Jaiva ivut (Panicum italic- 

 cum) growing on it. The strictly native name was Nusa ha?' a 

 hara, or JK"usa f Kennang ; meaning "jungle island" or "hilly 

 * Yol 1 2 island."* And between it and Sumatra there 



is as good a claim to be the Taprobane of the 

 ancients, as that possessed by Ceylon. To trace all the analogies 

 afforded by names would perhaps be superfluous, especially where 

 other materials are abundant ; nevertheless this source of induc- 

 tion must not be neglected. Thus the mountains called Arjuna, 

 and Kami, cannot be mistaken : and the river called Kali brantas 

 # p lg at its source, and sura bay a afterwards, gives 



like indication : the district of Wira saba* 

 A D 1187 being so called, has a pure Sanscrit name. 



It may be expedient here to notice the 

 tradition of a separation of Sumatra from Java in the Java 

 year 1114, and the separation of other lands, or Islands, around 



* p 9 . in the course of 170 years afterwards.* The 



difference of mineralogical constitution be- 

 tween Java, and Sumatra, which Raffles thinks a valid objection to 

 such separation, is perhaps no objection ; seeing that the mi- 

 neralogical constitution of closely connected districts, of the 

 same country, often greatly varies. Among the names of flowers, 



* P 36 there * S Champaka, and Naga-Sari* Sanscrit 



terms. We find the term Adipati used to 

 denote a chief, which word is familiar all over India, in the same 



* P 79 sense.* Mantri, is also used, for a kind of 



chiefs : the term in Indian use being restrict- 

 ^ p gl ed to a minister, or counsellor, of state. In 



the word Patahf assistant to the Governor 

 of a Province may be recognized Patel, the head of a village in the 

 Mahratta country. The term Bopati, Governor of a Province, is 

 the Hindu Bhupati, lord of the soil, or Prince, without material 



* P. 84. alteration. Mendopo* is used for a hall in the 



Court of a Prince ; being the Sanscrit word 

 Mantapa, of very familiar use, throughout India. Makota, was the 



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