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SHACK arDASARr. 
! Dingarkaii kisat suatu ruavit 
Raja didesa nigri Kambavii 
2- Dikarang fikir dijidlkan hikayit 
Dibuatkan sliau- serta bermit 
3 Adalah raja sabuah nigri 
Sultan Agus bija bastari 
Asulmah baginda raja iang bhari 
Melimpahkan pada dagang beapri 
5 Khabarrna orang ampuma termasa 
Baginda ftulah raja perkasa 
Tiadalah mh mirasai susah 
Antahlah kapada esoh dan liisah. 
BlfDASARf: A Poem * 
3 Listen to a tale of the history 
Of the King of a desa in the land of Kambayif, 
2 A Fakir composed and produced the story ; 
He made the poem as he had designed it, 
3 There was a King of a certain country, 
Sultan Agus, the wise and accomplished, 
His descent was from good Kings: 
He caused strangers and merchants to abound- 
3 The men of his own time relate 
That he was a King of might. 
Never had he felt misfortune,— 
But who knows of the morrow ? 
* For convenient reference from the original, the translation, although 
not metrical, is placed in verses, line for line, with the former, 
\ INCITES, 
Line 3. , “y * bijak. As our object is to write Malay in roman cha¬ 
racters as it is pronounced, and not as it is spelt, we deem it proper to con¬ 
vert the rj k, into the short a ? , although contrary to the practice follow¬ 
ed by Marsden and generally adopted. The vow el before the final k is 
sometimes pronounced as if followed by a slight aspirate, but more often 
as if the speaker abruptly stopped short when abepat to pronounce the k. 
,, 6. Literally, tomorrow and the day after. 
