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Rh Gautama Buddha died at Kusinara - Nuwara, near Oude at the age of 81 years, in the year before Christ 543.

Budah, froth, foam.

Budak, a child, a young person, either boy or girl; a lad, a lass, a slave.

Budal, going away in numbers, or in a crowd; off, departed, removed, shifted quarters. Jelema na geus budal, the people have all gone away.

Budeg, foolish, simple; also perversely doing what is wrong.

Budeng, a peculiar trap set to catch JSler fish.

Budi, understanding, intellect. To bogah budi, he has no intellect- he is an idiot. Budi, C. 476. understanding, intellect, wisdom. (Skr. buddhi).

Budi-akal, resources, means of obtaining one's end.

Bug, the idiomatic expression of lying down.

Bugang, a dead carcass, any dead body of man or beast. Kembang bugang, a very stinking plant in the jungle, Clerodendrura inerme. Churuk bugang, the middle finger.

Bug-brug, thrown down carelessly in aheap; materials lying in heaps.

Bugis, name of a people on the island of Celebes, considered the most enterprising of the Malayan race. Prahu Bugis, a Bugis trading boat or vessel. Soldado bugis, a Bugis soldier.

Buhaya, an Alligator. Bu, C. 477, a demon, from Bhuta, a goblin; Haya, C. 786 a horse; a Demon -horse. (Jav. baja. Skr. bhaja is frightful, horrible, dreadful. The w might have been interposed for the purpose of not losing the aspiration, h. Fr.)

Bujal, the navel.

Bujang, an unmarried young man. This is the name by which house-servants, and paid labourers of all descpriptions are now known, though mostly married and often old men. In native society before it was meddled with by foreigners or Europeans, young men served the parents of young girls for wives, as did the patriarchs of old; for example Jacob served Laban twice seven years for his daugthers Leah and Rachel. Genesis 29 Chap. Probably derived from Buja, C. 475, the hand-, the arm, with the Polynesian ng suffixed; the hand or the arm taken to denote aid, assistance in work.

Bujangga Manik, the name of Ratu Guriang, or the king of the moutain spirits. Bujangga means a serpent. In India the worship of serpents is adopted into the Brahminical system. In particular it is found in Cashmere. On Java and Bali there existed an adoration of serpents (Vasuki) and the Bujangga's appear originally to have been worshippers of reformer of Indian absurdities. Every body knows Buddha is not the name but the title acquired by the son of Cuddhodana, But Budha is one of the till now rather mysterious persons of unrcformed Hindu Mythology, whose coming into existence depends upon the decision at what time the week of seven days first was invented, or when the next planets became known to the Indians. Budha appears at the head of the lunar race of Kings of India. Fr.