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An Essay on Early Relations 



[No. 37, 



Roum is usually applied was not then in existence ; and possibly any 

 part of the neighbourhood of the Tied Sea, or Arabia, might be so de- 

 signated ; in correspondence with the tradition before mentioned. In 

 the 10th year of the Javan era (A. D. 85) the prince of Kling is said 

 to have sent twenty thousand families (a number plainly used vague- 

 ^ ly for many persons) who prospered and* mul- 



tiplied. Now Kling is the Javanese term for 

 the eastern coast of the peninsula of India ; and the word is a cor- 

 ruption from Calinga, or the Calwga-desam, being the province of 

 Orissa, the northern circars, and perhaps the whole of 'Telingana; 

 especially if connected with the Andhra-desam, as perhaps it was. 

 That this kingdom flourished greatly about the commencement of the 

 Christian era, we are certain from native annals, and some classical*' 

 notices ; though we know less of it, in detail, than perhaps of any 

 other great Indian monarchy. The above colony is said not to have 

 been civilized until about A. 7, 300, (A. D. 375). After various 

 other domestic events, in A. J. 1002, a coincidence as to date, with 

 a passage hereinafter cited from the Congu desa rajakal may be noted. 

 According to this account a foreign prince named Aji-saka ar- 

 rived ; who conquered the native prince, and succeeded him. This 

 Ajisaka or Adi-saka is a personage of commanding consequence in 

 the Javanese annals ; but who he really was, or whence he came, 

 so far as those annals are concerned, are points involved in much 

 obscurity. The account, whence the preceding matters are extracted, 

 is ascribed to Aji J ay a Bay a, a prince who reigned A. J. 800 though 

 evidently not correctly ascribed to him ; it is prophetical in charac- 

 ter, and after announcing a temporary European ascendancy, (mistak- 

 ing the date) it declares that " by the year 2100, there will be 



w an end of Java* entirely." From what source 



* P. 70. . , , 



this prediction was acquired it is superfluous 



to inquire : but it announces that which the deductions of astrono- 

 mical science render extremely probable ; for, by that time Java 

 perhaps may slumber beneath the waters of the ocean. 



There is another account which states that the religion and arts 

 of India were first introduced into Java by a Brahman named Tri- 

 tresia, w T ho with numerous followers landed in Java ; and establish- 



* Sen Campbell's Telugu Grammar, Introduction p. vii. 



