104 SRI RAMA. 



the Chiefs of the tribes by name to come and attend him. 

 Then with a rushing sound like that of a hurricane or the 

 crashing of a thunderbolt came the monkey-chiefs with their 

 troops. These were Janggit, Mabit, Baya Panglima Baya, 



B^GAR HuLVJBALANG, NlLA KaMALA, DaRDI, MaLAH, JaMBUANA, 



Sang Kamala Sina, Raja Marjan Singa, and Marjan Singa 

 Berantalawi. Very ferocious did they look, with gaping 

 mouths as red as the fires of Jehannum, and as cruel as a tiger 

 which has just seized its prey. 



The monkey hordes speedily acknowledged the new-comer 

 as their sovereign, and he took up his abode in the plain of 

 Anta-ber-anta at their head. 



The story then shifts to a certain Maharaja Duwana,* who 

 inhabited the island of Kachapuri f in the middle of the ocean. 

 He had fallen in love with the Princess Sakutum Bunga 

 Satangkei merely from hearing the description of her beauty, 

 how her waist could be encircled by the fourth fingers and 

 thumbs joined, how her figure was as slim as the menjelei% 

 stem, her fingers as slender as the stalk of the lemon-grass, 

 and her heels as small as birds' eggs ; how when she ate sirih or 

 drank water her face acquired an indescribable charm. The 

 supernatural power which Maharaja Duwana possessed enabled 

 him to fly through the air from his own country to Tanjong 

 Bunga, where he alighted outside Sri Kama's palace. There 

 the magic charms which he employed strangely affected the 

 Princess, though she was in her own apartments, and neither 

 she nor her attendants could understand her uneasiness. 



Subsequently, when she was amusing herself in the morning 

 in the principal balei with all her attendants, Maharaja Du- 



Eavana. 



f The ancient name of Conjeveram in the Madras Presidency, 

 46 miles S. W. of Madras. It is called Kachclii in Tamil literature, 

 and Kachchipuram is probably represented by the m( dern name. — 

 Yule's Glossary, p. 782. The incidents wliich, in the Runayana, 

 take place at Lanka are, in this story, transferred to Kachapuri. 



% A kind of grass or reed something like millet (?) 



