,OF;r«P INDO-CHINESE NATIONS. Irt^, 



CiTARA Kala; the Jar an Kilinang Cheritra; the 

 Ratii Bader Kisna Cheritra ; the Fanga TVitin, or 

 history of Ixu Kurtaputti ; the Gambar JVira- 

 Putva; the Gambar Sri Ratu Aniim-Ani Malayu, 

 or history of Gambar Sri, Princess of DaJia and 

 Raja Anu'm of Malaya; the Naga Bisaru, or his- 

 tory of a Princess ofDa/ia, who was transformed into a 

 snake, and confined in a lake, the Putti Kola Bisrm 

 or history of Vishnu, the Kinta-Buhin, or history of 

 a chief of Banjarkulin in Jaz^a, the Kilana Jayang 

 Sitiru, or history of Radix Jakan Tinanglu, the 

 Angling Dermavi Raja-Cheritra, and the Hikaiat 

 Parang Puting, or history of the hatchet without 

 the handle. To the same source are probably to be 

 referred the following, if they are not purely of 

 Malay composition ; the Hikaiat Pelandulc Jij2aka, 

 or history of the sagacious hogdeer. The HikaiaU 

 Burung Pinggey, or history of a wonderful bird. — 

 The D.eva Mandu Cheritra, the Sayer S?^i Batin, tlie 

 Hikaiat Bian and the Hikaiat Rajah Boodak. 



The following are modifications of Arabic narratives, 

 accommodated, however, to the peculiarities of the 

 Ma!ayuTi\iinueTS and customs. The Hikaiat Arair 

 Humda. The Hikaiat Rajah Kheiber^ the chief of 

 the Jexvish tribe of Kheiber in Arabia. The Hikaiat 

 Rajah Hinduk, the Hikaiat Mahummtd Hanifah, the 

 Hikaiat Khajeh Maimiin, the Hikait Eblis, the Hi- 

 kaiat Rajah Shah Alurdan, the Hikaiat Sultan Ibra- 

 him-ibn-Adhem, the Hikaiat Sekunder Dulkharntini. 

 The Koran is also translated into Malayu in the same 

 paraphrastic manner as into Persic. 



There are many Malayu compositions of a histori-. 

 <;al nature, though they are not so common as the 



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