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handed demons, dragons, snakes. Indra Warna fires his magic 
arrow Dewa Laksana, which Putra Jaya Pati spits at and turns to 
water. Putra Jaya Pati fires the arrows given to him by Narada 
and slays Raja Indra Warna, whose army is broken and flees. 
Raja Gangga Wijaya and his son Raja Indra Samandra Lela 
had refrained from helping Indra Warna because he had started 
the battle without consulting them. 
Putra Jaya Pati feasts with his warrior genies and takes his 
ease with the princess. 
Now a genie who saw the battle had flown and announced the 
tidings to the forty princes who had been fellow pupils of the hero 
under Narada. They take leave of their teacher and come in a 
cavalcade to visit Putra Jaya Pati. - Two go and make peace with 
the princess’ father and take the hero into his presence. Putra 
Jaya Pati weds the princess and is escorted seven times in a seven- 
tiered car round the palace. All the women run to see him and fall 
in love with him :—a passage recalling the account of the admira- 
tion of women for Hang Tuah, given in the Séjarah Mélayu and 
Ht. Hang Tuah. 
The hero takes his bride to the home of his parents, passing 
on the way a subject kingdom Beranta Pura Nilam Dewata. His 
father abdicates and he becomes ruler of Langkam Jaya with the 
title Maharaja Bikrama Indra Dewa or Paduka Sri Sultan Putra 
Jaya Pati Sifat Ala’u’-d-din Shah. 
In plot this romance is little more than a short redaction of 
the Hikayat Indraputra. The princeling who astrologers prophesy 
will be carried off by a four-legged creatire, who on his travels eats 
shell-fish that come to life when the shells are cast back into the 
water, who is warned by a skull that a fierce demon haunts the 
lake, who defeats the demon by pretending to sleep, who stavs with 
a gardener and flies by night into a princess’ bower, who is helped 
by warrior genies in his fight for the princess’ hand, who returns 
home at iast with his bride and succeeds his father as Sultan—all 
these episodes occur in the longer romance. 
Parallels to the tale from Indian folklore are given in my 
article on the Hikayat Indraputra in this number of the Journal. 
The many quatrains in the tale should be of interest to stu- 
dents of the pantun. ; 
(Opy) 
R. A. Soc., No. 85, 1922. 
