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with those given in the first half of part II of our text. But the facts
found in the second half of part II, beginning with the deposal of
Baginda (HP 75), are missing in S, which, on the other hand, has a long
story about the final struggle of independent Patani against the Siamese,
ending finally with the Malay defeat (S 81—91). Some of the names
occurring in the remainder of part II and part V of the HP also occur
in the subsequent story in S, but here the setting and the details are so
different that it is highly doubtful whether S had our version of this part
of the Hikayat at his disposal.
The above will suffice as a general evaluation of Syukri’s book as a
source for the study of our text. We have gratefully made use of his book
as one of our sources for the general survey of the history of Patani in
Chapter I, although we have hardly been able to use it in the edition of
the Malay text. Furthermore, we have commented in some detail on the
differences between the book of Syukri and our text in the discussion of
the separate stories of our text in Chapter VI, wherever such comments
seemed called for.