Ig21.] C. B. Kross: Pengkalan Kempas Tombstone. 189 
This is the first time this connection has been suggested. 
Several characters in other epigraphs of the Malay 
Peninsula seem to bear a resemblance to some of the letters 
on the Pengkalan Kempas stone:— such are some in the 
insertptions found in Northern Province Wellesley by Colonel 
Low, inscriptions found at Kedah by Colonel Low® and the 
Takuapa inscription. 
It may be noted that the characters of the Pengkalan 
Kempas pillar are _ptoduced by cutting away the surface of 
those (I believe) of Indo-China and the Malaysian islands are 
on the other hand all incised.® 
own opinion, which I hazard though r realise its lack 
inscriptions was made by his own people, the other by Malays 
ongst whom he died: and that for an explanation of the 
undeciphered oo we shall probably have to look back 
to Southern Indi 
Possibly, nearer at — similar remains may be found 
in sg eae in North Sum 
e notes are is merely to “start the hare’”’ and 
heute: the plates which it is hoped may meet the eye of 
some one capable of deciphering the inscriptions. The grave 
and the adjacent monoliths, re-discovered not long ago, are 
among the most interesting of the few antiquities of the 
Malay States and it is believed that a full _knowledge of the 
ee may shed further light on their origin. 
rn. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: XVII, iiss. Pp. 63, 64, 71; pl. 4 hh si 
in Traber’ s Oriental Miscellany : Essays relating to indo-China, I, 1886, 
pp. re pe 231 an ate. 
, XVIII, 1849, pp. 247-9, pl. X: re-printed tom. cit. pp. 232-4 
and as 
8 Bulleti 8 Commission Archeol as aed de 1l’Indo-Chine, II, 1910, 
PP- 147-154, x (See also other volumes of this publication which 
should be com by all interested in the niles remains of the Malay 
Penin anes 
- As also the word ‘* Allah’ on the neighbouring monolith (antea pl. V. a 
® See, — an inscription in relief figured in Raffles’ ‘‘ History 
Java,” edn. 1 
