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‖ pedanda|pɛˈdændə|
Also padanda, padenda, and with capital initial.
[Balinese, = ‘bearer of the staff’.]
In Bali, a Brahman priest. Also attrib.
1817T. S. Raffles Hist. Java II. p. ccxxxix, The duties and ceremonies of religion, the conducting of which is in the hands of..learned Brahmins called Padénda. 1877Jrnl. R. Asiatic Soc. IX. 113 The Padandas are Brahmans who have received a complete education from another Padanda (their Guru). They must be thoroughly acquainted with religion and with literature. In order to become a Padanda, they undergo all kinds of tests... The mark of the dignity is a staff, danda, which they receive from the Guru... After this staff they are called Padanda, that is, ‘bearing a staff.’ 1924T. de Kleen Mudrās 23 Although the Balinese in general are a polite and hospitable people, the Pedandas showed themselves very reserved, sometimes obviously hostile. Ibid. 27 My Pedanda friends in Sidemen. 1936R. Goris in Netherlands Indies 16 Feb. 71/1 There are in Bali both Padandas ‘Shiva’ and Padandas ‘Buda’. Ibid. 77/1 Every bench of magistrates in Bali must have at least one Padanda sitting on it as a judge. 1937M. Covarrubias Island of Bali (1972) ix. 293 The pedandas still exert a powerful influence on Balinese life despite the fact that their relations with the people were never intimate; they represent the law, and the judges of the high native courts..are still pedandas in the majority. 1953J. Belo Bali: Temple Festival 4 The temple priests who are the guardians of these temples have not studied as have the Brahmana high priests, the pedanda, who are often scholars and learned men. 1961P. Kemp Alms for Oblivion vii. 116 Priests wear white, and a high priest or pedanda goes bareheaded and carries a staff surmounted by a crystal ball. |