In traditional Javanese thought, money and things associated with money are something less than clean, and are certainly not things that a man of good breeding should be associated with.
As a consequence, the ways in which to store wealth that were available to a man who respected himself, were limited.
One of those ways was by using precious and semi-precious stones as a store of wealth.
Perhaps one of the most affordable of semi-precious stones is the agate.Once the accountable value of the commodity had been established, it automatically became worthy of being something that could be passed to a following generation, and as an object that would have been in close personal contact with the previous custodian, it became elevated to the position of a recognised pusaka.
Of and by itself it could not become a pusaka,it could only achieve this status through contact with a previous custodian.
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