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followers, and from him the dattos of Magindanao trace their liueage. Kabun- 

 h-uan, through his Arab father, is supposed to be descended from Mohammed, 

 and so the dattos of Magindanao to the present day proudly believe that in 

 their voius flows the blood of the propliet.^ 



A strange fact is to be noted in the simultaneous warfare of Span- 

 ish and Mohammedans botli in the West, in Spain and in Morocco, 

 and in the East, in the Philippines, where the Spanish again entered 

 upon a warfare against their natural religious opponents, whom they 

 had always called " Moors " or " Moros," so that the Malay Moham- 

 medans received from them the same name " Moros." 



Another peculiar historical incidence is that it is to religious 

 impulse that the other great prehistoric culture influence in the 

 Philippines is due. The great civilization developed in India by 

 the Hindus is also responsible for the world religions, Braminism 

 and Buddhism, that spread over Burma, Siam, and Java fifteen 

 hundred y^ars ago. Although temples and other great architectural 

 ruins of Hindu civilization are not found elsewhere in the East In- 

 dies, it is clear from many sources that Hindu influence penetrated 

 to far beyond the confines of the coast of Java. Many words in 

 Tagalog dialect have a Sanskrit origin, the alphabet employed by 

 the Filipinos at the time of their discovery to the Spanish was simi- 

 lar to that in use by the Hinduized Javanese. Dr. Pardo de Tavera 

 writes "the words which Tagalog borrowed are those which signify 

 intellectual acts, moral conceptions, emotions, superstitions, names 

 of deities, of planets, of numerals of high number, of botany, of war 

 and its results and consequences, and, finally of titles and dignities, 

 some animals, instruments of industry, and the names of money." 

 Inasmuch as the migration of the Malay to the Philippine Islands 

 in great numbers was comparatively recent and under Mohammedan 

 influence, it is probable that the Sanskrit words adopted into the 

 Tagalog and other Filipino dialects were acquired from the Hindu 

 at a much earlier date and before the migration to the Philippine 

 Islands occurred. As the Hindus were not accustomed to making 

 long maritime voyages, it is probable that Hindu culture was ac- 

 quired piecemeal and that it passed from one island to its nearest 

 island neighbor. There is no tribe in the Philippines, no matter 

 how primitive and remote, in whose culture of to-day elements of 

 Indian origin can not be traced. 



One of the first authentic records of migration of the Malays who 

 later spread over the entire region of Indonesia is their settlement 

 of Singapore about the year 1160. First known from the region of 

 Menangkabau, Sumatra, it required the stimulus of Islam to accel- 



> A History of the Philippines, by David P. Barrows, p. 40. 



