Notes. 
The name ““ Malayu.” 
The national name of the Malays is mentioned, if not for 
the first time in recorded history, at any rate with a seus 
territorial denotation, as early as the 7th century Eye y 
Tsing, a Chinese Buddhist аак їп two of his "ore. the 
Ta- t*ang-si-yu- Ku-fa- Kao-séng-ch*uan or “ Memoirs of Eminent 
Priests who visited India and Neighbouring Countries to search 
for the Law under the Great T'ang Dynasty,” and the “ Record 
of the Buddhist Religion as practised i in India and the Malay 
Archipelago,” 
This fatter work, the original title of which is Nan-hai-chi- 
Kuei-nai-fa-ch*uan, literally “u The Record of the Sacred Law, 
sent home from the Southern Sea," has been translated, 
im sana with part of the forüier, into En glish, by J. Takakusu, 
a Japanese scholar, and was publishe d in 1896 by the Oxford 
Clarendon Press. . The author, e visited the Malay Archipe- 
lago in the winter of A. D. 671-2 and remained for some time 
in "Sumatra, speaks of the Mo- fe -yu country as being one of the 
islands of the South Sea in which Buddhism then prevailed. 
He fixes its Бара by telling us that it lay to the west of 
Shih-li-fo-shih (Sri Bhoja or Bhoja), which place асан to be 
certainly identified xdg the San-bo-tsai of other Chinese chroni- 
clers and the Sarbaza of the Arabian geographers ofthe 9th 
century E а tells us that Sri Bhoja им in his time or shortly 
* See especially Groeneveldt’s ** Notes g the Malay Archipelago,” 
ete., Essays on Indo-China, ete. 2nd series, vol. 
