[48] Pasar is held once every five days and once every thirty-five days it falls, therefore, on a Friday.
[49] Batikking is the art of dyeing woven goods by immersing them in successive baths of the required colour, protecting the parts to be left undyed by applying a mixture of beeswax and resin.
[50] A stupa, lit. a mound, a tumulus, is a memorial structure, sometimes raised over a relic of the Buddha, one of the eight thousand portions into which his ashes were divided, or a tooth, or any other fragment of his remains. The combination of such a memento of the Most Chaste with the emblem of supreme virility is syncretism indeed!
[51] Professor Dr. H. H. Juynboll in the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch Indië, Ser. vii., vol. vi., nr. 1.
[52] Those not in the Government service: planters, industrials, etc., always of lower caste in general, especially official esteem, than the select who draw their salaries from Batavia. Hence the native designation of such an inferior individual as a particulier saja, “only” a private person.
[53] Recho or rejo is the name given to any sort of statue.
[54] From circulus, circle, something round, which rolls easily away into oblivion as it is intended to; but, if nothing else, la folie circulaire keeps the fiction of governmental guidance and control alive.
[55] Speaking at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society of the Netherlands, December 27, 1902.
[56] Vishnu’s vahana or bearer, the monster-bird.
[57] By G. P. Rouffaer, Indische Gids, February 1903.