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large number of details suggest that T is closer to B than to A. The
following points may be mentioned to illustrate this:

4.6 and 15.5 B and T 4 and 17 both wrongly have Kakabutia.
5.3 A clearly states which explanation of the name Patani is correct,
whereas B and T mention the two alternatives without making a
choice.
5.4 B has the words pada pantai added, which are reflected in T 6.
6.2 B adds kembali to the text of A, which accounts for T 7 (p. 21, 1.4)
“returned”.
8.3 B and T 9 have “daily”, which is lacking in A (only T adds “of the
Lord Buddha”).
14.8 B and T 16 mention the building of two mosques, whereas A
mentions only one.
15.2 B and T 16 have the full title Seri Raja Fakih, whereas A has
simply Fakih.
17.4 A is ambiguous and could be translated in two different ways;
B allows of only one translation, which is actually the one in T 20.
29.3 B and T 27 both lack the name of Bahdur Syah in the enumeration
of Manzur Syah’s children.
34.6 B lacks the words hidup itu, and T 28 seems to be based on a text
lacking these words.
51. In the story of the marriage of Raja Kuning T 35 is a little closer
to B than to A, as both texts seem to place the marriage after Paduka
Syah Alam’s accession to the throne; however, only T has Apya Deca
die in Siam, which contradicts the following story in A and B.
74.3—10 B and T have in common the contraction into one of two
names Paya Si Lin and Paya An Tiwa’ through an apparent mis­
understanding of the Malay text (see Chapter VI, Comments on
section 22).

Over against all the above cases there is only one case in which T is
closer to A than to B, i.e. p. 14 and T 15, where T gives the names of
the state cannon in the same order as A, whereas B has a different order.
There are many cases in which A and B are much closer to one an­
other than either of them is to T. These have hardly any value in proving
the relationship between the three versions, as T in general is much
shorter than both A and B.
It seems possible, on the strength of the above comparison, to state
that the Thai translation was made from a Malay text which was much