THE ISLAND OF BALI. 
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SrowTna, on the 8th day of the white half, in Wildikt'i*) 
After this the writer makes his excuses in the customary 
manner for the bad and careless writing, and he has great 
need to do so, for the manuscript abounds in faults ; he pleads 
his inexperience (mudi) and inferiority (.hina din*). He 
adds further that the work is a secret writing (i rafwsya ) and 
concludes with the well known invocation, 
Siddir-astu, tat’ astu astu 
Ong Saraswatie tiamali 
Ong g’mung Ganapataye namah 
Ong sri Gurubyo namah 
Ong ong fCamadevaya namah. 
Respecting these invocations we refer to what is said under 
Rdmdyana and Barata Yudda, Here only is added Ong 
adoration to k^modeva. He, the god of love, would thus 
appear to be peculiarly the favorite deily of the writer. The god 
of love is indeed highly honored and praised in many of the 
newer poems, a circumstance the analogy of which we find 
again in India. We give here the prologue, the text and the 
translation of the Sir tstisanQ : 
“ This is the Purvddigam'i —S dsanasastra-saro — drUta\ 
first composed by the accomplished old teacher, the raja Pur - 
ohitn, who knows all qualities, who resembles the rays of the 
sun, who dwells in the hearts of all mankind; Misraharana, 
who as the highest precious stone outshines all the divine 
teachers of SzV-* (of the Sivaite sect), the lowest, the middle, 
and the highest ; further is he named the first Guru the great 
saint. The same asked for ashes after he had obtained per¬ 
mission to ask for ashes ot the children and grand children 
of Sang Bas?nangkuro(l); the same commanded him thereupon 
to conpose the Susajiadigama S astrasaro dreta for all priests, 
as many as held the religion of Siva ; for the Panditas of Siva 
as well who live in the cities, the perfect ones, as also those 
who choose to dwell partly in cities, partly in the country, also 
for the host of the learned, who take care of processes, who 
* Where this Wilatikta is to be sought for in Bali rermins uncertain, it is 
(Wilwatikta) the Sanskrit name for Mnjapnhit. It is possible that the work was 
originally written in Majipah.it, and that the copyists in succession retained 
the name of the city, where it oiiginally was composed, although they them* 
stives were in Bali. 
t This word must be divided, it would appear, into two parts ; Purvadiga. 
ma sasana “ the command law of the Purvadigama ” and Sastra Haro dreta “ in 
which is contained toe essence of holy works’'. The Saro is inserted instead of 
Som and we thus find the nominative case in place of the theme in a composition. 
This seems to be an error founded very likely in the want of acquaintance 
with the meaning of the Sansctit terminations and inflexions, but offering 
at the same time another proof of the preservation of the inflexions in the 
memory of the Panditas. 
