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A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE.

the altars in the temples of Buddha are covered every morning. (Used for the same purpose on Bali).

Champéa, name of a large private Estate near Buitenzorg, celebrated for its limestone hill, which abounds in caverns where the edible birds nests are found. Chāmpeyya, C. 197, the Champaka tree, another form of the word Champaka.

Champur, to mix, to mingle, to confound.

Champur-bawur, to intermingle, to jumble together, to mix indiscriminately.

Chanar, the name of a creeper in the jungle which has an edible root; Zanonia Indica. Chanar-babi, is another variety.

Chandak, to bespeak, to have made arrangements to appropriate. Geus di cliandak ku aing, I have bespoken it.

Chandi, a mausoleum, an old burying place; an old Hindu temple or relick of antiquity. — Durga the wife of Siwa was much worshipped in Java and had temples raised to her. In Clough's dictionary Chandi is given at page 193 as the name of the goddess Durga, alluding especially to her incarnation for the purpose of destroying Mahesasur, the demon of iniquity. Probably from Chandi being thus a popular goddess, and having many tempels, these tempels themselves, and all temples eventually came to be called Chandi. Chandi on Bali according to Mr. Friederich, Bat. Trans: Vol. 22 is a small pyramidical temple attached to the houses of the chiefs.

Chandi Séwu, the thousand temples, one of the principal groups of ruins at Prambanan.

Chandra, the moon; the more usual word is Bulan. Chandra C. 194 the moon. See Sangkala.

Chandra Kirana,a princess of Kědiri, the wife of the celebrated Panji of Javanese romance. Chandra, moon. Kirana C. 124 a ray, a sun beam, and thus Chandra-kirana, moon-beam. See Inakěrtapati.

Chandu, Opium prepared ready for smoking. In appearance it resembles treacle and is thus a black sluggish liquid.

Chandung, to marry a second wife, whilst a first one is still in existence, and thus to have two or more wives at once. The law of Mohammed allows its votaries to have four legal wives at the same time.

Changchang, to tie, to fasten with a rope or string, as a horse or a buffaloe put out to graze; to tie anything with a string. The shreds of bambu prepared as string to tie ataps on a roof.

Changchangan, anything that we have fast by a rope or string; figuratively anything that we have made arrangements to appropriate and which we hold, as it were, fast by a rope.

Changchangan, a part of the native weaving loom, viz. the stand which consists of two uprights each long 1½ to 2 feet, with a notch or mortice cut at the top, so as to admit the Totogan to lie horizontally upon it.