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THE HIKAYAT PATANI AND RELATED TEXTS 47

It seems probable, however, that all these references are to one and
the same text, namely the one which he mentions in his introduction as
his panduan (“guide”) in composing his book, and that this text was in
fact a version of the Hikayat Patani which is published in the present
book. There are, further, apart from the cases where Syukri refers
explicitly to a Malay source, many pages in his book which are so close
to our text that it is probable that Syukri must have had this particular
hikayat at his disposal. This is all the more true as these stories or data
are often not known from any other sources. A few examples of the close
correspondence between them will be listed here. The story of the Islam­
ization of Patani in S 30—34 is largely similar to story 2 of the HP.
Mudhaffar Syah’s first visit to Siam in S 38—39 is described in much
the same terms as in story 4 of the HP. The dynastic facts about the
inland dynasty throughout S are in the main identical with those found
in the HP, including the rebellions of Raja Bambang and Raja Bima.
The story on the waterworks in Patani as found in S 47 also occurs in
HP story. The love-affair between the prince of Johore and Dang Sirat
which is described in such detail in story 19 recurs in S with details
which are remarkably similar.
However, there are also many important differences between HP and
S. These differences are of various kinds, as listed below.
(a) HP has stories which are completely lacking in S, e.g., the Palem­
bang attack on Patani (story 7), Wan Muhammad’s mission to Siam
(story 9), the relationship between Patani and Sai (story 12), Raja Leia’s
mission to Johore (story 20) and the rebellion of Raja Kali (story 21).
(b) The stories of S and HP are only partly similar, as, e.g., the story
of the foundation of Patani (story 1) where S has used the Sejarah
Melayu story as well and has divested the story of all legendary traits.
(c) The story of S is not only different, but also occurs in a different
context; this is the case with story 3 about the cannon-founding which,
as was already observed by Wyatt,27 occurs at a much later stage in the
sequence of events in S (S 63—66), and with a number of important
differences, even though some particulars are so similar to H that S must
have taken them from the Hikayat, or from a common source.
(d) S has many data which do not occur in the HP. He sometimes
explicitly mentions other sources used by him, both Western 28 and

27 Wyatt, 1967, p. 21.
28 Some Western sources quoted by Syukri are Pinto (p. 37), Mandelslohe (pp.
44—50), Peter Floris (pp. 54—58), Hamilton (pp. 75—77). Some of these