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this is the rock which is at tliis day visible at the 

 point of .sijiiihapura, or Tanjong Singhapura." 



After «oir>e oiber recilals the Annals state that 

 " after a Itmg time, Badang also died, and was 

 buried at the point of the straiijhtR of Singhapu-. 

 ra ; and. when the tidings of his death reached 

 the laud of Kling, the Rajah Rent two slone pil- 

 lari*, to be rai.sed over his grave as a momiinent, 

 and ihe-e arc the pillars which are still at the 

 point of Ihe bay," 



A'owj the first two instances are totally desti- 

 tnte ol presuniptive evidence ; this last Is on the 

 contrary, full ofit; At the , mouth of the river- 

 there IS a large rock, ^ hich is concealed at high 

 water, and on which a po**t was erect ed four or 

 five years ago by, I believe, Captain Jacksnn of 

 the Bengal Artillery, to warn boats of tiie dan- 

 ger; this ih the rock fabled to have been hurled 

 by Badang: He is said to have been buried at 

 the point of the strait^ of Singhapura, the sceoe 

 of this wonderful exploit ; Bud there, the very 

 ftpoi where this record m to be still seen» the Ra- 

 jah ofKiing, who had been ^o serious a loser by 

 it^ ordered hh monument to he erected. 



Fabulous and childish as the legend is, it brings 

 m directly to the point. Sri Rajah Vicrama, 

 called by Crawfurd* Sri Rama Wikaram, reign- 

 ed in the year of the Ilegira 620, or A. 1223» 

 and was succeeded in Heg. 634, or A. 1236 

 by Sri Maharaja. The Annals state, after record- 

 ing the death of Badang, that this king reigned 

 a long time; con$ecjuenlly the occurrence must 

 be placed early in Ids reign. The Annals were 



