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In reply, Sultan Mansur, who, according to Mr. Wilkinson’s 
“ History ’’ pamphlet, 1908, page 24, came to the throne about A.D. 
1459, sent a naval expedition against Pahang which captured the 
country and its ruler as well as the ruler’s daughter, Putéri Wanang 
Séri, whom the Sultan subsequently married. By this marriage he 
had two sons, Raja Ahmad Muhammad and Raja Muhammad. 
Raja Ahmad Muhammad was the Sultan’s favourite of all his sons 
and was nominated as his heir. He lost favour, however, owing to 
the murder by his followers of a son of the Béndahara who, when 
playing “raga,” had inadvertently so kicked the ball that it knock- 
ed off the Raja’s head-dress. The Sultan accordingly banished him 
to his mother’s country of Pahang, of which he had him installed as 
Sultan. under the title of Sultan Muhammad. The new Sultan 
married the grand-daughter of the Raja of Kelantan and had three 
sons, Raja Ahmad, Raja Jamil, and Raja Mahmud, and a daughter 
who married her cousin Sultan Mahmud of Malacea—the Sultan 
whom Albuquerque ejected in 1511. According to the Bustanu-al- 
Salatin, Sultan Muhammad was succeeded by his son Sultan Ah- 
mad, who by a non-royal wife had a son Raja Mansur. The Sultan 
abdicated in favour of this son who married Raja Fatimah the 
daughter of Sultan Ala’edin Riayat Shah of Malacca who was the 
son of Sultan Mansur and the father of the Sultan Mahmud just 
mentioned. I believe that the gravestone found is that of this lady. 
She would appear to have had an unhappy time in Pahang as 
her husband died without children being “ murdered by all his 
warriors.” 
His uncle Raja Jamil succeeded and was rapidly followed by 
the other uncle Raja Mahmud who contrived to establish himself 
on the throne. He seems to have married a cousin, the daughter 
of his uncle Raja Muhammad, and his daughter married Sultan 
Ala’edin Shah of Malacea, Sultan Mahmud’s successor. 
Apparently civil war followed on the death of the first Sultan 
of Pahang. The omission in the Séjarah Malayu of any reference 
to the murder of Raja Mansur might be ascribed to the author’s 
theory that “Malays never rebel,’ but other inconsistencies bet- 
ween his account and the detailed genealogy of the Bustanu-al- 
Salatin must be ascribed to inaccurate information and confusion 
between rulers of different generations who bore the same or simi- 
lar names. 
Tébing Tinggi, the place where this stone was found, is not 
known to have been a residence of royalty, but it is not far above 
Lubok Pélang to which, according to the Séjarah Malayu, Sultan 
Abduljamal of Pahang retired after his abdication, and where he is 
said to have died. 
As far as I am aware, this stone is the oldest dated gravestone 
in the Peninsula, 
R. A. Soc., No. 60, 1911. 
