Wraspati Thursday
Sukra Friday
Sanischara Saturday.
The different circumstances under which the
Indian islanders and the nations of the continent
of Asia and Europe adopted these terms for the
days of the week, illustrates the different characters
and states of society of the people. The same arbitrary
number of this period,—the names of the
days borrowed from the same mythological personages,
and in the very same order, decide the
identity of the week ; but it requires some philological
skill to determine that identity in the origin
of the terms, which, with the civilized nations
of the continent; are translations, hut, with the
simple tribes of the Archipelago, literal transcripts,
which give us no trouble to decypher.
Except in reference to the markets, when the
native week is constantly used, the Arabic week,
the days of which are, as usual, called in their order
by the ordinal numerals of that language, is at
present current in Java, and every other Mahome-
dan country of the Archipelago-
Before the Javanese had any communication
with the Hindus, they seem to have had a civil
and a rural calendar. This curious fact we are enabled
to ascertain from the evidence of language.
From the innovations which we presume to havq
been introduced by the Hindus, and from the imperfect
knowledge transmitted to us respecting institutions,
the greater portion of which have no
longer any existence, much difficulty arises in determining
the precise nature of these calendars.
The slender knowledge I possess on this subject
I shall lay before the reader, without attempting
any general reasoning on a subject for which my
knowledge is so incompetent.
The civil year appears to have been divided into
thirty portions called Wulcu, for each of which
there was an appropriate name. These names
have been handed down to us, and are purely native.
They are now applied to no purpose but
that of judicial astrology, and with this view the
whole thirty are divided into six classes, while
each individual Wulcu has for its regent a deity of
the Hindu mythology. The Wulcus and their
regents are as follow ;
Wulcu Regent
1. Sinto Yama
2. Landap Mahadewa
3. Wukir Euwira
4. Kurantil Purusangkara
5. Tola Bayu
6. Gumbrag Chakra (Sakra)
7. Warig-alit Asmara (Iswara)
8. Waiig0-,a0gu ngo Pancharasmi (Planet BudhJ
9. Julung-wangi Sambu