Topeng Sidha Karya: A Balinese Mask Dance - Yavanika

TOPENG: SIDHA K ARYA 197punta: What is the flower for?sangkya: It is simply a tool to make it more tangible. I now cure thesick pigs and make the empty coconuts full. Saksana. [This “in theblink of an eye” cues musicians to provide the specific accompaniment forsangkya’s ceremony].punta: Wow! This ceremony is suddenly coming all together, it’s gettingbetter and better. It’s successful. All right! Rights for all!sangkya: In the future too, keep this true.dalem: (Recited by punta) Singgih inganika brahmana antyan suksemadahat yayateki ingulun sawetnyan sidhakaryan ingulun mangke hanaganjaran ingulun lawan inganika. Sekayaning mangke katekeng dlahainganika agelar Dalem Sidha Karya, wus mengaran Ida Sangkya.punta: (Translating for the dalem) Many thanks Brahmana, we are sopleased you made our yadnya successful, and we now honor youwith our highest ceremonial title. From now on we honor you asDalem Sidha Karya, “The one who completes the ceremony, theritual work.” You are Ida Sangkya no more.dalem: (Recited by punta) Muah yan hana wang anangun karya utamaoyeng Bali lamakana anuwur inganika anodya kunang karya, yan tanmangko jahtesemat tan labda kunang karya.punta: (Translating) Also, whosoever holds a high ceremony in Balimust henceforth invite you to oversee the ceremony, and if anyonedisregards this order, may their ceremony fail!sangkya: Your Excellency gives me such a noble title, so high andsolemn sounding for the likes of me! But I cannot refuse it, becauseit comes from you.Now, with your permission, I will perform yoga in order tochange my outward image to better fits the title you have given me.After my transformation I will take up my abode in Badung, in thevillage Sidha Karya. Henceforth, in accordance with your decree,anyone performing high yadnya in Bali, should request ritual toolsfrom the temple of Sidha Karya in the form of catur wija, four kindsof rice. That means yellow rice (beras), white rice (ketan), black rice(injin), and red rice (beras barak). Also request the five woods orpanca taru: including a young coconut leaf (lidin busung), a youngpalm leaf (lidin ron), bamboo needles to staple the palm leaves forthe offering (semat), bamboo woven into rope, and coconut petals(kloping). This is my pronouncement as Sidha Karya, the one whoaccomplishes the ritual work. [These materials that are used in theSidha Karya ceremony during which the dancer scatters the rice to the fourcardinal points and prays while still wearing the mask of the Brahman.The colored rice and leaves represent the four directions and the center pointwhere the dancer stands. Five represents the unified cosmos. The five direc-