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 distinct 
territorial denotation, as early as the 7th century of our era by 
I Tsing, a Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, in two of his works, the 
Ta-t'ang-st-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 in India and the Malay 
Archipelago.” 
This latter work, the original title of which is Nan-hat-chi- 
Kuei-nai-fa-chiuan, literally ‘The Record of the Sacred Law, 
sent home from the Southern Sea,’ has been translated, 
together with part of the former, into English, by J. Takakusu, 
a Japanese scholar, and was published in 1896 by the Oxford 
Clarendon Press. The author, who visited the Malay Archipe- 
lago in the winter of A. D. 671-2 and remained for some time 
in Sumatra, speaks of the J/o-lo-yu country as being one of the 
islands of the South Sea in which Buddhism then prevailel., 
He fixes its position by telling us that it lay to the west of 
Shih-li-fo-shih (Sri Bhoja or Bhoja), which place appears to be 
certainly identified with the San-bo-tsai of other Chinese chroni- 
clers and the Sarbaza of the Arabian geographers of the 9th 
century. I Tsing tells us that Sri Bhoja had, in his time or shortly 
before his visit, annexed the J/o-lo-yu country. 
Sri Bhoja was at this time a great centre of Buddhism, and 
I T'sing’s object in visiting it was to study the sacred Canon and 
the Sanskrit language. After a stay of six months, he went on 
to the JMJo-lo-yu country and then to India, but about A. D. 
688 he returned to Sri Bhoja, and remained there about six 
years, so that he had ample opportunity for becoming acquainted 
with the circumstances of the coutry. From other sources* this 
* See especially Groeneveldt’s ‘‘ Notes on the Malay Archipelago,” 
ete., Essays on Indo-China, ete. 2nd series, vol. 1. 
