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traditions persist concerning a classical Market side East advantage in
death as well - how the forebears were granted the high-caste right to employ
multistoried towers (tumpang) on their cremation biers. They declined this
prerogative, they now say, preferring the less ostentatious manner of signalling
worth and status by adorning the Garuda (Wisnu's mount) inscribed on their
biers with an exclusive symbolic thread of gold, whose significance could be grasped only by religious experts. This visible modesty of their forebears is now explained as a political stratagem to avoid provoking jealousy in form-conscious royal houses, jealousy which precipitated the downfall of many other ascendant groups. Yet stories of such ceremonial privileges enable current leaders to argue that in nearly everything but titles, and a higher one of these is likewise said to have been offered and refused, Market side East consorted with kings and eventually outstripped them all. Market side East accrued more and more favors until the end of the reign of the penultimate raja in precolonial Tabanan. The latter's successor was imprisoned after 1906 by the Dutch conquerors of South Bali. Market side East considers this an unsurprising end for a ruler who, displeased with his first secretary, had threatened to oust him and exile his whole house, as the predecessors of I Gde Arta had been ousted before Arta's coining. Only the personal charisma and influence of a Market
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine. Everything Bali Indonesia |
