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Rh of this name, and a very rapid current runs through the adjacent straits. So that the circumstances favor the interpretation which might be given to it from our Sunda Badong.

Badori, Calotropis gigantea, a shrub which produces a pod, containing a fibre like cotton. It is sometimes called apu-apuan which see. It is called in Malay Biduri see Marsden Page 59.

Badot, a rancid, stinking he-goat.

Badui, a small tribe of heathens living among the mountains of South Bantam, who have hitherto resisted the adoption of Mohammedanism. Bedawi, arabic-rustic; a clown, a Beduin or inhabitant of the Arabian desert. The Bedui of Bantam do not give themselves this name, but it is applied to them by their Mahomedan neighbours. The Badui call themselves after villages, and have no general name to designate their race. (Arabic بدوي bedewî or baduî campestris. Meninski).

Bagal, the root end of any member where it joins upon the body, that part of a plant where it comes out of the ground. Bagal tepus the stump end of a těpus plant. Bagal buntut sapi the root end of a cow's tail.

Bagalén, name of a Residency in the middle of Java, and adjoining the South Coast.

Bhaga, C 485, fame, glory, knowledge; the absence of passion, the tranquillity of the religious man who has divested himself of all worldly excitability; omnipotence or supreme power; virtue, moral merit, final emancipation. Ali, C. 65. a race or family.


 * , the race of Devotees.


 * =, the abode of the race of Devotees. These districts were formerly probably the abode of holy refugees from India. They had in this position the Prawn mountains immediatly to the north of them, and the grand temples of Prambanan. Boro Budur and so many others in the districts adjoining them on the East. See Bagawanta and Serayu. (In the Mahratta country is a district Baglana. Cf. Lassen Ind. Alt. I. p. 148. N. 2).

Bagawan or Bhagawan, a title given to all spiritual persons on Bali. Friederich Bat. Trans, vol 23 p. 8. The word is also used in Ceylon, and in Clough 2 vol. page 486 is Bhagawantan, one of the names or generic terms of a Buddha.

Bagawanta, called according to the peculiarity of Javanese pronunciation Bogowonto. It is the river which runs between the residency of Bagalen and Jogjakarta.


 * see voce Bagalen.


 * , C. 621 subjugated, possessive of.


 * The river subjugated to, or possessive of Bhaga. This river is still in so far held sacred, that no prince of Java blood may or dare cross it, and its presence often caused to Dipo Negoro and those of the blood royal much trouble in the Java war of 1825/30.