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Rh :powers by the mystical or magical worship of Siwa, Durga and Kartikeya etc. Parayoga thus probably originally meant those who had attained celebrity by religious meditation or tapa, in Buddhist or Hindu times, and hence became used to mean anything which had attained perfection.

Paré, paddy, Oriza sativa. Rice in the ear or husk. When ground it is called Béas, and when cooked Kéjo. The Sunda people have an idea that paddy was called Paré originally from growing up regularly to same height, and bearing fruit evenly, and thus Papaharé, side by side, emulating each other; the word was shortened into Paré. The Sunda people have a well known tradition that a time existed when their ancestors were not acquainted with paddy, but lived on Jégéng. Paddy is either grown on irrigated lands and hence called Paré sawah, or on uplands dependent upon rain and called Paré humah or Paré pasir. It may be useful to subjoin a list of the varieties known at Jasinga, distinguishing the sawah from the humah, giving the colour of the rice and noting whether the ears bear awns or beards or not. The following is a list of Paré sawah.


 * 1 Angsana Bahĕula, white, bearded.


 * 2 Angsana lĕutik, white, bearded.


 * 3 Banténg, white, bearded.


 * 4 Bénténg, white, bearded.


 * 5 Bĕurĕum gĕdé, or Rabik, red, bearded.


 * 6 Bĕurĕum Huis, red.


 * 7 Bĕurĕum Loyor, red, bearded.


 * 8 Bĕurĕum Séksék, red, bearded.


 * 9 Chĕré Bogor, white, beardless.


 * 10 Chĕré Changkaruk, red, beardless.


 * 11 Chĕré Gadog, red, beardless.


 * 12 Chĕré Kadut, white, beardless.


 * 13 Chĕré Malati, white, beardless.


 * 14 Chĕré Pichung, white, beardless.


 * 15 Chĕré Taropong, white, beardless.


 * 16 Chĕré Tigaron, white, beardless.


 * 17 Chĕré Tongsan, red, beardless, a variety introduced from China; ripens in 80 or 90 days.


 * 18 Chindé, white, bearded.


 * 19 Chokrom, white, beardless.


 * 20 Gajah mĕnur, white, bearded.


 * 21 Gĕbang, white, bearded.


 * 22 Génja, white, bearded grows quick.


 * 23 Giliran, white, bearded.


 * 24 Gimbal, white, bearded.