tour from sourabaya, through kediri, &c. 499 
ported to have been left where the body was burnt, Eang 
Romo was not a Mahomedan, he practised none of its rites* 
he professed none of it's doctrines, but appears to have taken 
for his example the manners and habits of the Hindu or Bud- 
hist ascetics, of whom mention is made in the earlier period 
of Javanese history. He left no children, and was never 
known to have had a wife He was, however, always attend¬ 
ed by a female, whom be brought with him from the Wilis. 
She prepared his simple food and attended upon his 
wants. She also is said to have lived a life of single 
blessedness, and still survives at the village of Galor near 
the foot of the Kawi and is known by the name of Nini En- 
dang. Strongly impressed with the Budhistidea of transmi¬ 
gration of souls, and of the nature of that transmigration 
depending upon the pure or wicked life spent in the present 
state, the object of Eang Romo’s mortifications is said to have 
arisen from his desire to raise himself in the scale of society 
in a future state of life, his prayer and wish having been to be 
reborn a nobleman and a Tumunggung. Poor deluded crea¬ 
ture, it is to be hoped that his harmless life will find him favor 
for batter things than this world can bestow I Eang Romo 
must have been about 80 years of age at his death, which took 
place about a year and a half after Mr Laup’s arrival at Blitar 
in 1832. The Panghulu of Welingi, one of my numerous 
informants, a man fully 55 years old, stated that he perfectly 
well remembered seeing him soon after his arrival on the Kawi, 
at the time of Raden Ronggo’s rebellion, and that Eang Romo 
then had the appearance of being as old as he, the panghulu, 
now is, viz about 55, and adding 23 or 24 years, till the period 
of his death, brings him very closely upon the age of 80. 
Eano- Romo was succeeded in his honors and profession of a 
hermit, by a person who had long been his disciple and who 
originally came from Banjumas. He was known by the name 
of iVJodjo Roto or Eang Sari, but had not yet attained that 
degree of sanctity or self controul for which his master 
was so conspicuous and whom he was destined to survive only 
two or three years. His remains were not burnt but interred 
in the Mahomedan fashion at Singo Modo on the Kawi. He 
also was never known to have wife or children, and observed in 
every way possible the practises ot Eang Romo. About half 
a dozen families always lived near Eang Romo and moved 
with him about the Kawi, none of these ever practised the 
Mahomedan rites, but now submit to be married by the 
priests of that religion, though they still cling to Jsini En- 
dang at Galor, 
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