[95] On the summit of the Wilis are four heaps of debris and two enclosed terraces; on its eastern slope is a place of prayer, consisting of three terraces with bas-reliefs and called Penampihan, where the natives still congregate for sacrifice.
[96] Borassus flabelliformis of the palm family, which, though hardly used in these times of cheap paper as a provider of writing material, serves the natives for a hundred other purposes.
[97] Two of the eight arms were already missing in 1815 to judge from Raffles’ reproduction.
[98] See his article, Pictorial Art in Asia, in the Contemporary Review of May, 1911.
[99] Bas-relief on the remains of a small building detached from the chandi Panataran proper.
[100] Bijdrage tot de Kennis van het Javaansche Tooneel.
[101] Kulit means leather, the material of which the puppets are made.
[102] The gamelan, as already remarked, is the Javanese orchestra, and besides the gamelan salendro and the gamelan pelog, the gamelan miring should be mentioned, which varies from the former in the higher pitch of one of the five notes as produced by some of the instruments. The Kiahi Moonggang, a relic of mighty Mojopahit, the oldest, most sacred and least melodious of the royal sets of gamelan instruments, is played every Saturday evening and so long as its tones fill the air, all other gamelans must remain silent. Cf. Dr. J. Groneman, De Gamelan te Jogjakarta.
[103] The topeng actors are masked conformably to the meaning of the word. Masques and masquerades seem to be of high antiquity in Java; the Malat of the Panji-cycle already mentions that kind of dramatic entertainment.
[104] Utilised for prose works in the langen driya, devised by Pangeran Arya Mangku Negara IV., and in the langen asmara, devised by Prabu Widaya, a son of Paku Buwono IX.