[126] General name given to various plants of the bean family; the _kackang_ here meant, is the _kackang china_ or _tanah_ (_Arachis kypogaea_) the oil of which is used as a substitute for olive-oil. [127] The beans or nuts pressed into cakes and used as manure, especially in the cultivation of sugar-cane. [128] According to another explanation they represent King Sudhodana and Queen Maya with Siddhartha, the future Buddha, as a baby in her arms, which leaves us in the dark about the other children. [129] Lacking money and wanting money, always more money: a summary of Dutch colonial policy as it strikes the native. [130] The influence of eastern fables on western literature and art in all its branches cannot be overestimated as exemplified for instance, with special relevance to the one just referred to, by the late EMM. POIRÉ (CARAN D’ACHE) when he made our old friend Marius imitate the snail’s braggadocio in his delightful cartoon _Les Pantoufles en peau de tigre_ (_Lundis du Figaro_). And the story of the vulture and the turtles found its way, via American plantation legends, into J. C. HARRIS’ tales of Uncle Remus. Concerning the manner of the “Migration of Fables” from East to West, most interesting particulars can be found in MAX MÜLLER’S _Chips from a German Workshop_, iv., p. 145 ff. [131] The Buddha’s characteristic tuft or bunch of hairs between the eyebrows. [132] In consequence of the young enthusiast Sarvarthasiddha cutting his long locks with his sword when leaving his father’s palace to adopt the life of a recluse as Sakyamuni, the solitary one of the Sakyas, and meditate upon the redemption of the world. [133] The words _chaitya_ and _dagob_ are often used indiscriminately and every _dagob_ is, in fact, a _chaitya_, but a _chaitya_ is a _dagob_ only if it contains a relic. [134] _De Tjandi Mendoet vóór de Restauratie_, publication of the _Bataviaasch Genootschap_, 1903. [135] Major VAN ERP, in the _Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde_, 1909. [136] _Dapoor_ means “a producer of heat”, “a place where things are produced by heat”, hence an oven, a kitchen, the priming-hole of a gun. [137] Before the road was relocated to correspond with the relocation of yet another new bridge after the last but one’s tumbling down, the _chandi_ Dapoor stood almost at the wayside; its having been smuggled out of sight has not improved its chances of preservation. [138] _Bombax malabaricum_ of the numerous _Malvaceae_ family. [139] By the architect VAN DER HAM. [140] _Canarium commune_, fam. _Burceraceae_. [141] Or _ramelan_ (_ramadhan_), the great yearly fast. [142] ... in the soft rays of the setting sun Smiling at the cerulean solitudes. [Illustration] CHAPTER IX THE STONES OF THE BORO BUDOOR ... la vérité rendue expressive et parlante, élevée à la hauteur d’une idée. ERNEST RENAN, _Vie de Jésus_ (_Introduction_).