Indian Antiquary Vol 26

SR No.: 032518
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 360
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARI.
(OCTOBER, 1897.
MISCELLANEA. A MORALTIY FROM THE CENTRAL who knows but that they may have hearts that PROVINCES.
commend themselves to Paramèśvara.
M. N. VENKETSWAMI. Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a pious king. One day, having bathed and
DERIVATION OF SATELEER. applied the filaku to his forehead, he started,
This is the form which a word for a small coin followed by his minister, to go to a temple to
of the Malays assumes in a general table of worship. To reach the temple there was a river
Oriental coins and weights given by Stevens at to be crossed.
p. 128 of his New and Complete Guide to the East Now Isvara, with a view to test the prety of the
India Trade. The following quotations will shew king, assumed the form of a mangy dog, and
that its derivation is precisely that of sopique appeared at the river precisely at the moment given ante, p 222 ff., and that it meant originally when the king and the minister were about to the same thing, viz., a string of pitis or cash cross it. In this repulsive disguise the god It is, in fact, made up of the Malay sa, one, + approached the king repeatedly with a mnte
tali,'a string, just as sapèque represeutssa, one,+ appeal to be taken to the temple on the other side; púku, a string of pitis. but he kept himself from coming in contact with 1775. - "Coins of Siam, Pegu, Malacca, Camwhat appeared to be a low cur. Yet tbe animal per- ! bodia. Sumatra, Java, Borneo, etc.. sisted in going up to the king, howling piteously. Crown=8 Sateleers = 58..... A Bateleer
125 Fettees = 74d." - Stevens, Guide, p. 129. The minister, on seeing this, said to his
Fettee stands for pitis. master:-"I see, sir, that this creature wisbes to he taken across the river." So saying he took the
1776 - "Batavia. 3 Cash are 1 Satallie. 6 dog into his arms, notwithstanding the mange, Cesh, or 2 Satallie, are 1 Sooka. 9 Cash are and began fording the river after the king. 1 Scoka Satallie... 39 Cash, or 13 Sa.
tallies, or Skillings, are 1 Ducatoon." - Stevens, The river was not easily forded, and so, when Guide, p. 121. Sooka is for suku, a quarter piece the water reached up the armpits of the minister, (of #dollar, etc.). The Cash here is the copper he put the dog on his shoulders, and when the
coin worth a string of pitis. water reached his shoulders be put it on his head,
1862. -"Tali -- a rope, a string, a cord.... the king observing him all the time. And by the Name of a small silver coin, equal in value to an time the king and the minister reached the temple
eighth of a Spanish dollar, and consequently to the former found to his great horror that he had
about 13 English pence. It is probable that the been smitten with the mange of the dog, this being word is derived from the last, and has reference the punishment inflicted by the god, because, not to the practice of filing a certain number of small withstanding his reputed piety, he was not, when coins on a string, which, judging by the hole in passed tbrough the orucible of experience, found the centre of all ancient Javanese coing, appears richt in bis heart. On the other hand the to have prevailed in the Archipelago as well as in minister who had bandied the mangy dog from China." - Crawfurd, Malay Dict., 8.1. first to last was untouched, for his heart was
1881.-"12 duit (oent) = 1 tali (12) cents). approved by the god.
9 tali = I suku (25 cents)."-Swettenlam, Ma. The mornl is thnt we are not to look down upon lay Vocab. Vol. II., Appx. on Currency. the poor for their poverty or external defecte; for
R. C. TEMPLE.
NOTES AND QUERIES. A POINT IN INDIAN MARTYROLOGY. martyr, and one of the main contentions raised It would be interesting to enquire into the against the genuineness of his dying declaration ceremonies prevalent in the Perbawar District was the fact of such mode of burial having taken with regard to the burial of martyrs, and into place. the qualifications which entitle a deceased person It was said that no man is deemed a martyr to rank as a martyr.
who speaks after receiving his death-stroke, and I remember a case in which a man was murder- this man having received a martyr's burial, the ed. Previous to his death he was said to have dying declaration was not likely to have been made a declaration naming his assassin.
made. The murdered man received burial as a The late C. SPITTA in P. N. and Q. 1883.