Unknown Prince with keris

A. G. Maisey · 8th June 2009, 07:28 AM

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.

8th June 2009, 07:28 AM	#11
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,992	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.