THE HISTORY OF PERAK FROM NATIVE SOURCES. 99 
this Johor Bandahara was of the same stock as the Malay Kings, 
for the origin of the Malay Bandaharas was in Singapura. The 
King of Singapura was Raja Sryea, (1) who came out of the sea, 
and who married a princess, the daughter of Demane Lesar Davy ; 
he reigned at Singapura, and had two sons, the elder of whom 
became Raja and the younger Bandahara. It was ordained by the 
Malay Rajas, as to the male descendants of the Bandahara, that they 
could not intermarry with the family of the Raja, but must seek 
wives elsewhere. They were, however, entitled to be addressed 
with respect, and it was lawful for the members of the royal fami- 
ly to take wives of the descendants of the Bandahara, and these 
were addressed as Raja also (7). This is the account of the descent 
of the Malay Rajas and Bandaharas of the line of Singapura down 
to that of Johor. 
“ After the death of Marhum Mangkat di Kota Tinggi, the Johor 
Bandahara became Raja. Raja Mozarar Suan, who had gone to 
Perak, had a son named Raja Mansur (*) who remained behind at 
Johor when his father went to Perak, and who married a sister of 
Marhum Bukit. 
“Raja Mozarar Suan, when he became Raja of Perak, established 
his capital at Tanah Abang, and after his death he became known 
as Marhum di Tanah Abang. Then Raja Mansur and his wife 
were sent by Sultan Aua-Eppin (of Johor) to Perak, and they were 
established in the sovereignty there. They made their capital at 
Kota Lama. They had sixteen children, three of whom were sons. 
(:). No Raja Sryca is mentioned in the Sajarah Malayu, but 
the name of the mythical founder of Singapura matters little, for 
the whole account of it is mythological not historical. The table 
of the genealogy of the early Malay. Kings, which will be found in 
Vol. IX. of the Journal of the Indian Archipelago, p. 66, assumes 
the historical accuracy of Malay chronicles, though the early por- 
tions of them belong eannely to the domain of my tholog gy. 
(7). See LeypEn’s Malay Annals, p. 48. 
(3). Raja Mansur is mentioned in the Sajarah Malayu as “he 
who reigns at present,’ an allusion which supplies some evidence 
of the date of that work. Raja Mansur was the father of Sultan 
Mansur Suan of Acheh, who, when he died in A. H. 993, was old 
enough to have a grandson to succeed him. 
