HIKAYAT INDRAPUTRA. 49 
Raja Buang Shah, being chased by two suitors (mambang) Degar 
Akas and Ngedan Kilat, both of whom had been encouraged by 
her father while she was a child. By the advice of astrologers she 
had been put on the island along with a tablet (loh lazuard) : 
the astrologers had prophesied that a mortal Indraputra would 
solve the difficulty of the two suitors. Indraputra reads the writ- 
ing-on the tablet. The maids invoke the princess who rises to 
the surface a lotus and changes into a princess and talks to the 
hero. ‘The two suitors appear in anger. Indraputra pacifies them 
and taking the princess to a well bids her look into the glassy’ 
surface. Her shadow becomes a princess identical with herself, 
who is named Seganda Chahaya Bayang-Bayang. The princess 
takes Indraputra on an elephant into her kingdom and. all the 
people run to see, “some with skirts half adjusted, some with 
jackets half donned, others with hair untied.” The two suitors. 
marry the two princesses. 
Indraputra comes to a mountain where is the treasury of 
Raja Bahrum Tabit ( als v. Ronkel, lb J.) guarded by a 
cobra (called 39408 J. and R.) which he kills. He enters 
the forty chambers and is attacked by a horse, a genie Zangei 
Gerdan, whom he tames with genies’ language. The horse tells 
him to take a talisman from the head of a glass casket containing 
a substance (3) ss) from the belly of the cobra: that sub- 
stance will revive the dead. 
Now in the land of Zaitun (O32 3) ruled Raja Puspa 
Pandai, a Muslim genie, who had a son Detar (o>) Pandai 
and a daughter Chendra Lela Nur Lela: his subjects were apes and 
-monkeys, sloths, squirrels and beasts of the forest, who by night be- 
came human beings. He puts his daughter in a guarded bower with 
a myna-bird and a parroquet to amuse her. The birds sought a 
husband for their mistress and thirty-nine suitors came and heard 
the fish sing in the pond beside the bower but fell severed from 
the bridge of swords which led up to it:—the first suitor when 
sought was reading the romance of “ Baginda Shah ‘Alam.” Now 
Zangei Gerdan flew with Indraputra to this bower and the hero 
entered it safely. He dipped his magic substance in water from 
a glass bowl (mundam) and restored the 39 suitors to life. The 
princess took him to her parents. 
In Zaitun was a great dewa king, Raja Gohar (255) 
Jin, who had a daughter Talela Mandu (Madu J.) Ratna he kept. 
in a guarded bower on the plain of ‘Aji. To this bower came the 
golden peacock, which had flown off with Indraputra, and told the 
princess of his prince’s graces. ‘She called a draftsman to draw 
his likeness. The peacock drew an outline on the draftsman’s 
breast and the man copied it. 
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