92 In her translation, Pudjiastuti (Perang, p. 262) uses menikah, the usual Indonesian word for marry. However, this word derives from Arabic (Winstedt, Richard O., An unabridged Malay–English dictionary, 5th ed., Kuala Lumpur, Marican & Sons, 1963, p. 245Google Scholar), and has Islamic connotations, which might not have been applicable in this relationship with the jinn maiden, even though, as Prof. Pudjiastuti kindly notes in an email, some jinn have become Muslim. This, however, was not necessarily the case with the jinn Raja Pandita, who was bent upon destroying the Sultanate of Bantĕn. The original manuscript, the email clarifies, uses the words krama and rabi, both of which mean ‘to marry’. Both are polite (krama and krama inggil) words (Albada, Rob van and Pigeaud, Theodoor G.T., Javaans–Nederlands woordenboek, Leiden: KITLV, 2007, p. 856Google Scholar), appropriate to the social status of both Sultan Haji and Raja Pandita, irrespective of their religious orientation.
Especially considering the dubious status of Pangeran Dakar's Muslim identity at the time, having shed his symbols of being a haji and having entered into a relationship with a jinn maiden, I wonder whether kawin, an Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese word for marriage, which can also just mean sexual intercourse, would not have been a more fitting translation. This, however, might have run into problems of social status, kawin being a lower status word, inappropriate to the social positions of the parties involved.
