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HIKAYAT HANG TUAH. 
having hunted for Radin Galoh Puspa Kenchana all over Java, 
Radin Inu Wira Xantaja had gone to Tuban, Java Katrai. Palem- 
hang and finally Bentan, where he was given the title of Ratu 
Melayu. One night after hearing of Hang Tuah’s prowess, he 
made Pateh Kerma Wijaya relate how lie had attacked Bali. The 
Raja of Bentan went one day with the Ratu Melayu to Pulau 
Ledang to hunt. A white mouse-deer turned on their dogs and the 
prince decided to found a settlement, calling it Malacca after a 
tree on the spot where Hang Tuali and his friends afterwards built 
his palace. 
Hearing from Radin Daha that Radin Galoh had met Radin 
Inu Kuripan at Kegelang, Ratu Melaka proceeded thither by way 
of Tuban. 
The Raja of Malacca (and Bentan) sends for his brother, 
Sang Java Xantaka, to become Raja Muda of Malacca.. They feast 
and get drunk. Sang Java Xantaka is stripped, of his honours on 
account of his popularity with the people. 
But a Tamil merchant, Perma Dewan, who has three sons, 
Madiran, Kadiran, Kali dan, seeing in his astrological tables that 
the land of Ivalinga should have a prince from Si-Guntang, comes 
and picks out the discredited Sang Java Xantaka, disguised as a 
poor fisherman. At Kuala Xilapura they encounter and capture Fer- 
inggi ships; whose captain Sang Java Xantaka later ennobles with 
the title Setia Xegara, commissioning him to ward (payor) at sea 
and collect a 10% customs duty (sa-puloh suatu). Sang Java 
Xantaka rules over the land of Bijaya (or Wijaya) Pikrama, with 
Perma Dewan for his Bendahara, Perma Disa as Paduka Raja and 
two other sons of the merchant appointed Maharaja Indera and 
Maharaja Lela Setia. 
Xow the Raja of Malacca sent an offer of marriage to Tun 
Teja, daughter of Bendahara Seri Buana of Inderapura. But the 
lady declined, saying that she a sparrow should not math with a 
hornbill. So he despatched Pateh Kerma Wijaya, with Hang Tuah 
and his comrades, to Majapahit to ask for the hand of a princess 
there, Radin Galoh or Mas Ayu. The embassy got a favourable 
answer owing to the wit of Hang Tuah in criticizing and curing of 
vice a horse, the present of another suitor from Kalinga. The embassy 
returned by way of Tuban, Jayakatra and Palembang. The Raja 
of Malacca then went to Majapahit, taking Hang Tuah, on whose 
life many attempts were made by Javanese warriors. Hang Tuah 
killed one assassin, Taming Sari. The Betara of Majapahit pre- 
sented him with the island of Jemaja. Hang Tuah and his poor 
friends became pupils of Sang Persanta Xila on the mountain 
Wirana Pura. One Sang Bimasina was sent to steal Hang Tuah’s 
creese. Constant efforts were made to make him drunk. Seventy 
assassins attacked him in vain. A champion Sang Winara Semen- 
tara engaged him, changing himself into a fire-fly and then a cat 
and later a tiger, but he fell and was buried on the mountain Isma 
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