NOTES ON TWO PERAK MANUSCRIPT. 185 



of the history of the Malacca kings is given, which differs in 

 some particulars from the account translated by Leyden. (6 ) 

 The Portuguese are not mentioned, singularly enough, but 

 Sultan Mahmud Shah, in whose reign Malacca was taken by 

 Albuquerque, is summarily dismissed in the following sentence; 

 " It was this Sultan who is spoken of by people as " Murhom 

 Kampar" and the time that he reigned in Malacca was 

 thirty years. It was in his time that Malacca was taken by 

 the people of Moar, and he fled to Pahang for a year, and 

 thence to Bentan, where he spent twelve } r ears, and thence 

 to Kampar, where he remained for five years. Thus the' 

 whole time that he was Eaj a was forty-eight years." 



The Perak manuscript makes out that the first king of 

 Perak Sultan Muzafar Shah was the son of Sultan Mahmud 

 of Malacca by a princess of Kelantan. Eaj a Muzafar, accord- 

 ing to this account, was brought up as heir apparent of the 

 throne of Malacca, but was clis-inherited by his father in 

 favour of Eaj a Ala-eddin, the son of the Sultan's favourite 

 wife Tun Fatima. After the death of Sultan Mahmud 

 (Murhom Kampar) Eaj a Muzafar was turned out of the 

 country (Johor ?) by the Chiefs and went to Siak and thence 

 to Klang. At Klang he was found hj a man of " Manjong" 

 (Perak) by whose influence he was installed as Eaj a in Perak. 



So far the MS. account, but this does not agree either 

 with the Sijara Malayu or with local tradition in Perak. 



According to the Sijara Malayu (Leyden's translation, 

 p. 265) the first Sultan of Perak was "Tim Yiajet surnamed 

 Sri Maha Raja/ 5 who was formerly Beudahara of Johor and 

 "who was originally appointed Eaj a over Perak under the 

 " title of Sultan Muzafar Shah. He married the Princess of 

 "Perak and begot Sultan Mansur who reigns at present." 



The Johor origin of the Perak Eaj as is confirmed by tradi- 

 tion, though the manuscript before me makes the connection 

 collateral only. After relating the installation of Muzafar 

 Shah as Sultan in Perak, the Perak historian makes a digres- 

 sion to Johor, explains that Eaj a Ala-eddin (younger brother 

 of Muzafar Shah and son of Sultan Mahmud Shah of Ma- 

 lacca) became Sultan of Johor, and gives a list of six Eaj as 

 who succeeded him that Kingdom. The royal line of Johor 

 ended (says the Perak manuscript) with "Murhom Manglcat 

 di Kola Tinggi" and the sovereignty became vested in the 

 family of the Johor Bendaliara. 



(6) Leyden's Malay Annals Longman 1S21. 



