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An Essay on Early Relations 



[No. 37, 



name of the golden crown of Majapahit, the word is Tamil and 

 Sanscrit, and in the same meaning, and it had a Garuda (or sacred 

 kite) with wings, at the back. In a poetical description of a 

 chieftain's daughter, the word Putri, which is Sanscrit, occurs, and 



* P 92 S ^ e * S Sa ^ to * iave exce ^ ef t* Widadare-Dewi- 



Rati. Now Vidhgaddar, is the Sanscrit name 

 for a class of aeriel, superior beings, of which all nations have had 

 some notions, such as Shakspeare personified in his Ariel. Dervi 

 is Sanscrit, for Goddess, or Princess, and Rati may either be a pro- 

 per name, familiar to Javanese romance or is more probably an 



allusion to Rett, the wife of the Hindu Cd- 



* P. 93. 



ma ; and the word Mega* for cloud, Sanscrit 

 Meg'ha, shortly after follows. In the earlier days of the Majapa- 

 hit empire when the Hindu faith, and institutions exclusively pre- 

 vailed, the sovereign was termed* Ratu ; 

 and this is only a dialectical change from 

 the Telugu Raju, or Ratzu. In Tamil the change from the soft 

 enunciation of ch into t is considered elegant, hence masam, and 

 matham (a month), manushan and manithan, (a man), are used in- 

 differently ; except that the latter forms are considered the more 

 refined. But, besides these analogies, the Jdng had these epi- 

 # ib> ^ thets applied to him.* Nara nata, Nara di- 



pa, Nara pati, Narindra, Prabu, or Maharajja 

 terms perfectly Hindu ; and the queen had the title of Pramis- 

 wari, a name of Parvati, and when a king became a devotee he was 



# ' termed* Bagawan, that is B'hagavan, a God. 



In some notices of ancient customs (anterior 

 to the introduction of Mahomedanism, ) there are striking coinci- 

 dences afforded as " reciting the history of Rama" the names of 

 Dhurga, and Jagat-Nata ; the city of Kuru Setra (that is Kuru- 

 cshetriya, the plain where the famous battle between the Kurus 

 and Pandus was fought) ; the use of the invocation Hong / (that 

 is, o'mf) ; the words Kamojaya and Kamarati, (for Kama and Re- 

 ti) ; the invocation to water; " Hong! Grangga trigangga," trans- 



# 325 lated by Haffles* "Hail! holy water, thrice 



holy water," wherein probably the word 

 thrice is an error, the word tri, being most likely in the original 

 tiru ) (sacred) ; but, in the main question, the rendering is imim- 



