Note 8 — Chapter I · THE COUNTRY, THE PEOPLE AND THEIR WORK

Chandi means in its correct, restricted sense: “the stones between and under which in olden times the ashes of a burnt corpse were put,” or “a mausoleum built over the ashes of one departed” (Roorda and Gericke); by extension, in native speech, any monument of the Hindu period. The chandi Sari is supposed to have been a vihara or Buddhist monastery.