52 HIKAYAT INDRAPUTRA. 
cess, Raja Dewa Al-Kafri  (<¢_,44/1) grandmother of Gemala 
Ratna Suri, who gives him a cloth Samanta-Puri, (Sutrapuri 
Juynboll) which laid on the body of a sick person will effect a 
cure. After wandering seven years below the sea our hero returns 
to the country of Raja Shahsian and finds his daughter sick. The 
king proclaims he will marry her even to a slave if he can cure her. 
Indraputra cures her with his cloth. Then the jealous viziers and 
the 39 suitors urge the king not to fulfil his promicze but to take 
the princess to the island Pelinggam Dewa and give her hand to 
the suitor who can catch her favourite parrot. Indraputra uses 
his tahsman and calls genies to build a magnificent barge, which ° 
the princess chooses before those of other suitors for her voyage. 
He calls down a storm which troubles the others while his barge 
sails through calm waters. On the island the parrot is released. . 
The princely suitors climb a tree (mérangsi) to catch the bird. 
Indraputra fires a magic arrow that turns into wasps and bees which 
sting the suitors and makes them tumble to earth. Indraputra 
goes to the tree and the parrot alights on his hand. ‘They return. 
"The princes are defeated by Indraputra at sword-play. Ten of them 
waylay and slay him. His three wives issue in male attire from 
the casket wherein he keeps them and restore him to life by using 
the: ics Pe (+ Indraputra on his magic steed beats the prince 
on horse-back. Again they kill him and hack him to pieces. His 
three wives in male attire find the corpse and show it to Raja Shah- 
sian. Later they revive him. He beats the princes at archery, 
his magic arrow creating a cloud and wind to disperse the cloud,, 
fire and rain to dout the fire, the arrow returning each time to 
the quiver: by his magic the arrows of the princes cannot be 
drawn out of the quivers. Raja Shahsian prepares to marry his 
‘daughter to Indraputra, who sends for all the friends of his 
travels. The wicked viziers and the princes remove all weapons 
secretly by night and prepare to attack Raja Shahsian. Indra- 
putra calls on Dewa al-Kafri and uses (tambangkan) his talisman, 
whereupon is created a country of fairies and spirits armed and 
mounted on horses and elephants. Also Indraputra’s friends arrive 
in hosts. The wicked viziers and princes determine to flee by 
sea. Indraputra calls down storms that destroy their ships. De- 
gar Agas from the air tells them who Indraputra really is, and 
they return and ask his pardon. He marries princess Mengindra 
Sri Bunga and finally, taking his four wives in the casket worn at 
his waist, goes down to a ship and sails to his parents at Saman- 
tapuri, where amid great rejoicing he is made Sultan. 
The Hikayat Indraputra bears marks of being a pastiche, con- 
taining a number of folk-tales clustered round the person of the 
hero. 
Flying wooden peacocks are common in Indian folk-lore 
(Parker’s “ Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon,” II, pp. 18-30, III, 88- 
91; Chavannes’ “Cing Cents Contes et Apologues,” II, p. 378). 
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