Volume 2

Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : second series / [published by Reinhold Rost].

  • Rost, Reinhold, 1822-1896.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : second series / [published by Reinhold Rost]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Kavi (x. 6) has: tuzvin pada tlas makaryya bhis2tweng^ tgal paprangan raw an ngaran i kang tazvur nripati pandava imirwzvani kurn ya karihid brahinana knnang tazviir i sang nripeng rikan siru Qindpa sang dzvija sagotra matiyalaga. Then they all performed a sacrifice on the field of battle, Razvan was the name of the victim of the Pandawa king, commencing ; as to the victim of the Kuru king, a brahmiana was . . . . , thence he was cursed by the twice born, to die with his [whole] family in fighting.” This remarkable passage will perhaps attract the attention of some Sanskrit scholar, who may succeed in explaining it. In No. 21 (see below) I have not been able to find it.^ No. 3 (large folio of 244 pages, imperfect at the end) contains the It is one of the Panji tales, containing the adventures of Inu Kdrtapati^ prince of Kuripan. This manuscript commences with the king of Kuripan’s getting a son, called at his birth Asmara ning rat Onddkan Jay a. Then the birth is * Instead of bhistnva {hJiisinvang is bhisuwa-\-ing) a manuscript on palm leaves in my possession has bhistc-eng {bhisita + ing). I should like to read here bhisawa {abhisawa). The Malay text gives no explanation, as it is evidently influenced by the Javanese version, where sagotra has become the name of a person. Moreover it identifies Kawan with a son of Arjuna (of the name of Ira'wan\ who is afterwards killed by a demon (xii. 17). The word in the Malay version is probably a substantive made from which occurs in the Hikayat K^lmala bahrin with the sense of to turn off the evil influence of a ghost from a person who is supposed to have been visited by a ghost, and in consequence of it has got some disease (compare the Ngaju- Dayak palis). must then have the meaning of what is used to turn off the evil influence of ghosts. ^ In the Malay Panchatandaran (ed. Van der Tuuk, p. 46, 1. 17), there is the following allusion to this human sacrifice : As* !l >1 dk^3j3j Dharmaraja is the name by which Yu- , dhishthira is known in Malay tales [I.O. 87 ; Bat. 143 ; J. J. dc Hollander, “ Handleiding bij de Beoefening der Maleische Taal- en Letterkunde,” 5th edition, p. 33'^ No. 2].