Short Notes, 



" Haji Ka-Ta-Na-Ka-La." 



In No. 52 of this Journal, p. 107, Mr. W. George Maxwell, 

 raferring to tha biographical account of the Mongol general 

 Shih-pi* in B;>ok 162 of the History of the Yuan Dynasty, 

 hazards the guess that " Haji Ka-ta-na-ka-la " (as that work 

 his it) stands for Haji Kadir Nakhoda. 



This is ingenious, but wrong. Groeneveldt's translation 

 of the passage where the name occurs suffices to upset Mr. 

 Maxwell's suggestion. It reads : " At that time Java carried 

 on an old feud with the neighbouring country, Kalang, and the 

 king of Java, Haji Ka-ta-na-ka-la, had already been killed by 

 the prince of Kalang, called Haji Kalang. The son-in-law of 

 the former, Tuhan Pi jay a, had attacked Haji Katang, but 

 could not overcome him," etc. 



From this it clearly appears that "Haji Ka-ta-na-ka-la" 

 was a ruling prince, not a ship's captain who had made the 

 pilgrimage to Mecca. And in the year 1292 the ruling princes 

 of Java w T ere not yet Muhammadan, but Buddhist and Hindu, 

 both in their religion and their styles and titles. As a matter 

 of fact "Haji" here represents the old Javanese word hajii 

 " king," t and has nothing whatever to do w T ith the Malay- 

 Arabic word for "a man who has performed the pilgrimage." 

 " Haji Ka-ta-na-ka-la " was the Cri Kertanagara mentioned 

 on p. 142 of No. 53 of this Journal as the last ruling 

 prince of Tumapel. He was dethroned by his neighbour Java 

 Katong of Daha (otherwise Gelang) and his son-in-law Raden 



* Not "Shih-pi's account of Java," as Mr. Maxwell has it. 



t It is found also in literary Malay (piesnmably merely as a loan- 

 word from Javanese literature): see Wilkinson's Dictionary, s. v. aji. 

 I. The ruling prince of Berunai in the time of Sultan Mansur Shah 

 of Malacca is in the Sejarah Melayu styled "Sang Aji Berunai.'* 

 That would be somewhere about A. D. 1460. Possibly Berunai at 

 that time still acknowledged the supremacy of Majapahit (see this 

 Journal No 5, p. 1), but at any rate the title is clearly adopted from 

 the Javanese and may perhaps be an indication that in A. D. 1460 or 

 thereabouts the Berunai dynasty had not yet been converted to 

 jslam. 



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