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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
In respect of "kebo teki" , in Old Javanese, this referred to a type of grass.
In Modern Javanese "teki" is the name of a type of grass, possibly the same grass as was known by the name "kebo teki" in Old Javanese.
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Yes, "teki" grass has a characteristic of not-easy-to-be-routed-out, because of its small tuber underground... Maybe the characteristic of this grass-root was suitable to symbolize the characteristic the traditional javanese grass-root. And this type of grass, in the past was not all unuseful. Ordinary people in the javanese village often used the dried-tubers of "teki" grass to be used as face-powder, the crushed teki tubers of course...
(Thanks a lot, Alan, for reminding me....)
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