THE ISLAND OF BALI* 
23 7 
nama , ong siddir astu, tat-astu hastu , ong dirgayur astu . 
Ong adoration to the happy gods ; Ong, adoration to Gana - 
pati ; Ong may the accomplishment be, may that be; Ong , 
may there be long life ! Devyebyo must be devebyo. What 
gods however are meant is not clear; Saraswati and Ganesa 
cannot be intended, since the latter is invoked separately; 
tat-astu is here made more forcible by the addition of another 
astu; the word t’mung here likewise precedes Ga^apati. 
Dirgayus , “long life” is a thing for which the Indians and 
Balinese, and especially the composers of literary works,, 
always supplicate the Deity. It is not necessary to draw 
the attention of those who are acquainted with Sanscrit to 
the inflected Sanscrit forms, and to the proper observance 
of the difficult euphonic laws of that language, oecuringhere 
and at the conclusion of the Ramayana. In an enumeration 
of the Kawi works of a less sacred character, the Barata 
Yudda is placed at the head, because the contents are closely 
connected with the holy Pairvas. It stands however in 
less esteem and is more recent than some other Kawi works 
ex. gr. the Wiwaha. The language is also not a very pure 
Kawi, but more intermixed with the common bhdsd. 
2, Wiwaha . This is known from the Javanese para¬ 
phrase of Gericke , published in the 20th volume of the “ Verh. 
van het Bat. Gen/’ (Transactions of the Batavian Society.) 
The contents and arrangement of the narrative in Kawi- 
Wiwaha is the same as in the translated paraphrase. The 
language is a very pure and beautiful Kawi; it is likewise 
not composed in the common Javanese song-form, but in 
the Metra derived from India (to be afterwards describ¬ 
ed). The author is M’pu Kanwa , not Kanni , as we find 
in the Javanese Wiwaha, which word has been formed by 
the usual Javanese corruption of wa into o, Kanwa is the 
name of an Indian Muni or Saint. Our Kanwa however, 
we may be sure, was. a Javanese, perhaps of an Indian 
descent. He too lived in Kediri under Ayer Langgia the 
ancestor of Jayabaya. 
Hempu S’dah and Hempu Kanwa seem to have been 
adherents of the Siviatic sect. We find here few or no 
traces of Buddhism in the Barata Yudda and Wiwaha. 
3, Smara dahama , the burning of Smara (the god of 
love); a well known Indian myth. The god Siva is inter¬ 
rupted in his penance by Smara (or Kama,) that that is to 
* The Indian Kaghuvanaa Las been published in Calcutta, and by Stenalee 
in London. 
