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the Bodoanda, under five heads. Mejlis 28, etiquette to he 

 observed by the Bodoanda at Court. Mejlis 29, on things 

 prohibited to subjects of the king ; both these chapters are 

 divided into five parts. Mejlis 30, on honorary titles, of 

 five are enumerated, viz. Paduka, Maha, Sri, Raja i 

 Tuan. Mejlis 31, on Ambassadors and their qualifications. 



Part 2. Silsilah Bdja Raja di Bander Acid — Genealogy 

 of the' kings of Achin, comprising a historical abstract of the 

 reigns of the (a) Mahomedan kings of Achin from the 601st 

 year of the Hejira down to the present time. 



Sultan Johan Shah. A. H. 601. This monarch came 

 from the west, " deri atas angin" and converted the Achin- 

 ese to Tslam. 



He married the daughter of Belodari and settled at Kan- 

 dang Achin. He died A. H. 631, in the month Rejab. 



2. Sultan Ahmed. A. H. 631. Son of the preceding; 

 succeeded his father under the title Sri Sultan Riayet Shah, 

 He died A. H. 665. 



3. Sultan Mahmud Shah. A. H. 665. Son of the pre- 

 ceding — removed in the 43d year of his reign from Kandang 

 Achin to the present site of the city, where he erected the 

 fort, Dar al dunya. His death took place A. H. 708. 



(a) Sir Stamford Haffl.es observes (Memoirs, p. 384) that from this period 601 

 A H " until the reign of Secunder.or Macota Alem as he is more generaiiy called, 

 Acheen is said to have been tributary to Rum; it then obtained Maaf, or exemp- 

 tion from tribute. The crown and regalia appear to have been brought from Rum 

 shortly after the establishment of Islamism, and I think it probable that Acheen 

 was the first and most important footing obtained by the Mahoaiedans to the East- 

 ward, and whence their religion was subsequently disseminated among the islands." 

 The geographical situation of Achin and its early maritime connexion with Wes- 

 tern Asia seem favourable to this opinion, although the Malays are fond of attribut- 

 ing the diffusion of Islam as emanating from the ancient empire of Menangcabowe 

 in the interior of Sumatra. The introduction of Mahomedanism may be traced as 

 iefore observed, in Achin, so tar back as 601 A. H.— in Malacca, 675 A. H. — in 

 Java, 883 A. II. — among the Sunda islanders, 885 A- H.— in the Moluccas, 901 

 A. H. 



In the Celebes, according to the records, of Macassar, the Mahometan religion 

 was introduced, about 1012 A. H. by Khatib Tungal Dattu Bandang, a native of 

 Menangcabowe. It was shortly afterwards adopted by the Macassar States. Pre- 

 vious to Mahometanism a species of Buddhism and that rude kind of natural reli- 

 gion common to savage tribes is supposed to have prevailed. 



