The History of Sulu Part 32

[97] Arabic; victory.

[98] From the Arabic 'azeem or great; not from 'Alim, meaning learned.

[99] Arabic; exalter or defender.

[100] Arabic; Israel.

[101] Arabic; honor.

[102] Arabic; orator; the pandita who reads the oration, a part of the religions services held on Friday.

[103] See Ethnological Survey Publications, Vol. IV, pt. 1, p. 64.

[104] The servant of the giver.

[105] Jamiyun is Sanskrit and means brother or sister's son; Kulisa is Indra's thunderbolt.

[106] One of the names of the wife of Vishnu.

[107] Sulu; the sun.

[108] The Sulus believed that Alexander the Great came to Sulu and that their ancient rulers were descended from him.

[109] Sanskrit; the plant. Jamiyun Kulisa, Indira Suga, and Masha'ika are the names of the ancient G.o.ds of Sulu. Prior to Islam the Sulus wors.h.i.+ped the Vedic G.o.ds and evidently believed them to be the forefathers or creators of men. The Sulu author was ignorant of this fact and used the names of the G.o.ds as names of real men.

[110] Arabic; faithful.

[111] Chief.

[112] A gong used for signals and in wors.h.i.+p.

[113] Western district of the Island of Sulu.

[114] The northern and central district of the Island of Sulu.

[115] The southern and central part of the Island of Sulu.

[116] The eastern part of the Island of Sulu.

[117] The town where the present Sultan of Sulu resides.

[118] The inhabitants of the region west of the town of Jolo.

[119] The inhabitants of the northern coast, east of Jolo.

[120] Arabic; generous.

[121] Arabic; master or served.

[122] Arabic; n.o.ble; a t.i.tle applied to a descendant of Mohammed.

[123] Arabic; plural of wali, a man of G.o.d.

[124] Sulu; anchorage; the ancient capital of Sulu.

[125] A district in Sumatra.

[126] Arabic; beauty.

[127] Arabic; plural of karim, meaning generous.

[128] Arabic; orator; a high religious t.i.tle, allied to Imam.

[129] Arabic; slave or servant.

[130] Arabic; the Giver, referring to G.o.d.

[131] See p. 152.

[132] Genealogies; see Vol. IV, pt. 1, p. 11, Ethnological Survey Publications.

[133] Sanskrit; suns.h.i.+ne.

[134] Natives of the Celebes; they were often called by the Spaniards Maca.s.sars.

[135] Timway or tumuway, meaning "leader" or "chief," is the t.i.tle given to the chiefs of the land before Islam. Timway has been replaced by datu.

[136] It is possible that this color distinction arose from an early superst.i.tion or belief of Hindu origin a.s.signing those divisions of the island to the four respective Hindu deities, who are generally represented by those four colors.

[137] Quoted in Keppel's "Visit to the Indian Archipelago," p. 127.

[138] This term is applied in Sulu in the same sense as the Malay terms Orang-banua and Orang-bukit, meaning hill tribes or aborigines, or, as they say in Mindanao, Manubus.

[139] This term is used here in the same sense as Orang-Malayu meaning the better or seacoast Malays.

[140] The determination of this date and that of the rule of Abu Bakr is covered by a complete statement which will appear in the chapter on the early Mohammedan missionaries in Sulu and Mindanao, to be published in a later paper.

[141] The first historic seat of Malay rule was Pagar Ruyong (in the mountains of Sumatra), the capital of the so-called "Empire of Menangkabaw." (Malay-English Dictionary, R. J. Wilkinson, III, 2.)

[142] Bra.s.s cannon used by Moros.

[143] Variety of mango.

[144] The prince of the princes.

[145] The exalter of the humble.

[146] The defender of the faith; the first.