Hikayat Putra Jaya Pati. 
By R. O. Winsrepr, D. Lirr. (Oxon.) 
So far as I have been able to trace, only two MSS. of this tale 
exist. One is recorded in Van der Tuuk’s catalogue of Malay 
MSS. in the Library of the India Office, London: his account of it 
runs as follows :— 
“No. 98 small 4 vo. Ht. Indra Jaya Pati. The hero son of 
Kalawandu king of a realm in the west called Langkam Jaya is 
carried off in his seventh year by a spirit in the form of a tiger to 
a mountain Mahabiru, where the tiger vanishes after handing him 
over to Narada to learn magic. When Narada turns himself into 
a giant and a garuda, Indra Jaya Pati alone of his pupils faces 
him. Finally the hero marries princess Chindra Nur Lela and is 
made heir apparent by his father under the title of Maharaja 
Bikrama Indra.” 
The other MS., which I have used for this paper, is in the 
library of the Committee for Malay Studies, Kuala, Lumpur, 
Federated Malay States. The title reads Putra for Indra. A 
golden horse takes the place of the tiger. The MS. is written on 
blue ruled foolscap and the colophon records the copy was finished 
on Monday the 6th Shawal, 1238 A.H. in the year alif by Abdul- 
kadir ibni Hussin Mera, Jawi, of Kedah. 
The following is a summary of this second MS.:— 
Raja Kalawandu ruler of Langkam Jaya is childless. On the 
advice of astrologers he lavishes alms on religious mendicants till 
by their prayers his consort conceives and on Monday the 16th 
day of Rajab, while thunder rolls and a rainbow is seen and rain 
falls gentle, bears a son. Astrologers prophesy the child will have 
magic powers and be a mighty prince but a four-legged creature 
will soon divorce him from his parents till he reaches the age of 
thirty when he will return famous with many followers. He is 
named Putra Jaya Pati, and called Putra Jaya Pati Indra. 
One day the king takes his son to a field to watch other chil- 
dren play. He falls asleep on his dais and the little prince runs 
off to play. A genie disguised as a golden steed, approaches the 
field; the little prince mounts and is carried off into the forest 
toward a blue hill (Gunong Mahabiru). There the horse, who is 
descended from the genie Afrit, vanishes after telling the prince 
he will join in wars with genies, fairies, demi-gods and demons 
and should climb the blue hill and study magic arts from Begawan 
Narada. He sets out and meets ascetics who feed him with — 
bananas, manggoes, jackfruit, mangosteens and so on, and take 
him to the teacher, who foreknowing his advent sends his pupils 
to escort the prince. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
