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from the secret writings. From this we are inclined to 
trace their immigration into Bali and the large stock of 
knowledge they are still in possession of, to another part of 
Java, perhaps Kediri, and not to Majapahit. The tale of 
SivaBramins having cometo that empire from India shortly 
before the destruction of Majapahit is altogether unknown in 
Bali. Flow is it, moreover, possible that those Brahmins 
should have acquired so speedily the knowledge of the Kawi 
and of the native language ? The priests of Bali have been 
in Majapahit, how long is uncertain ; but they descended 
from Kediri, and from thence probably was it that they 
brought their greater knowledge. These accounts can be 
brought into accordance with the account in question of the 
arrival of Siva Brahmins at Majapahit, if we here likewise 
bear in mind the transfer of Baratawarsa into Java,—Kediri 
with its king Jayabaya lay in Baratawarsa ; Majapahit 
seems not to have been comprised in it. 
The literature of Bali from its nature is divisible into 
X, —Sanskrit works with Balinese paraphrase; they include 
the Vedas, the Rrahmandapurana, and the greatest part of 
the Tut.urs. 
2 —Kawi works : (a) the epics sacred to the people, viz., 
the Ramayana, Uttarakanda and the Parvas :—(b) the 
lighter Kawi poetry, as the Wiwaha , Barata Yudha &c. 
3 —Javanese-Balinese compositions, written partly in the 
native measure, (Kidong,J such as Malat, part’y in prose, 
as the historical narratives Kenhangrok, Rangga Leave , 
JJsana, Pamendanga. 
Some of the works in prose, especially the law books, can¬ 
not be classed in the third category ; they exhibit the ancient 
language strongly intermixed with Sanskrit, yet they cannot 
be called Kawi-works, from the absence of measure, and this 
alone is the characteristic of the Kawi language. From this 
also the 'poetical language is assured. 
To the accents which are used in the writings of Ball (vid. 
Tijdshrift 9. 3. 254-56) must here be added a sign for the 
long fi differing from the ordinary Suku, and everywhere used 
in good manuscripts, where the Sanskrit exhibits the long u. 
This long u is called Suku ilud, and according to this, Tijd. 
9. 3. page 255 1. 3. is to be corrected ; the kerrgt (ri-vocalis) 
is called Goemng makerret (Gceosng is chakra, makerrtf, 
joined to khret.) The Balinese have very indistinct notions 
respecting long and short vowels. The long i, with a small 
point in the common figure is called ceioe mija ; however 
they, at least the priests, use the long i, the long u, and the te- 
