HIKAYAT NAKHODA MUD A. 
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for barrenness, sailing off to the island Langkawi with his treasure 
and a mare. He declares that he will return only when his trea- 
sure-chamber shall be refilled, his mare be with foal and his wife 
with child. Disguised as sea-captain ( Nakhoda Mu da) she visits 
Langkawi, and beating her husband at chess wins his treasure and 
his mare. Pretending to be the unfaithful mistress of the sea- 
captain, she visits the Sultan by night and becomes with child. 
Then she summons him home, saving that his three vows are 
fulfilled. 
It may be remarked that the Ghaznevid dynasty (976-1186 
A.D.) founded in Afghanistan by_ a Turkish slave ruled for a few 
years from Lahore to Samarcand and Ispahan, and permanently 
established Islam in the Punjab: its court in the 11th century 
formed the rallying-point of all that was best in the literary and 
scientific culture of the day (A. R. Nicholson’s “A Literary His- 
tory of the Arabs”, pp. 268-9). So it would not be surprising to 
find a Ghaznevid playing a part in an Indian Moslem romance. 
The Batavian MS. reads Ajnawi for Ghaznawi, Sahel for 
Husain Mandari, Nain for Husain Mandi, Patalawe for Batlawi, 
Birandewa for Langkawi and Bujangga Indramuda for Nakhoda 
Muda. The names Sahel and Nain show that the story has been 
confused with the tale of another dream princess, No. 24 in my 
edition of the Hikayat Bayan Budiman, the Malay version of the 
Tutti Nameh or “Tales of a Parrot”. 
This identification is corroborated by a third version of the 
Hikayat Nakhoda Muda in a Batavian MS. of the Hikayat Bayan 
Budimian (Collectie v.d. Wall 173, No. LXIX, v. Ronkel’s Cat., 
pp. 82-84), where it actually takes the place of that story. The 
name of the king is of Ghazna. Two sons of a vizier 
and Husain (or j £- ) Mandi go to seek his dream princess 
and get locked up by an old fellow who mistakes their talk for 
lunatic raving. The old fellow’s daughter, Siti Sara, sends them 
dainties by her maid Dalimah. They discover in Siti Sara the 
princess of the king’s dream and one of them takes back her 
portrait to show. The Mantri and the Mangkubumi fetch her to 
marry the king. One day hunting the king kills a deer and see- 
ing her fawns bewail her thinks of his own childlessness and sails 
off to the island Birama Dewa. His consort disguised as a sea- 
captain, under the name of Dabu Janggela Indra Muda, sails after 
him, wins at chess his mare, which becomes with foal; then pass- 
ing herself off as the faithless mistress of the sea-captain whom 
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