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passage on adat, and especially on the royal orchestra and the melodies
and techniques used in playing the instruments of that orchestra. This
appendix is connected loosely to the main body of the Hikayat by the
information (p. 89) that after the death of Mudhaffar Syah only half
the instruments of the orchestra could be played through lack of
competent players, many of whom had not returned from Ayudhya; it
is uncertain, however, whether this link was made purposely by the
editor who later added this part to the Hikayat, or whether he took this
remark ready-made from his source.
It is difficult to determine when exactly these additions were made to
the Malay text, or when they were originally written. Some remarks will
be made in this connection below. It is interesting to note, however, that
both Abdullah and the copyist of Newbold’s MS. faithfully copied this
piece of Patani Undang-Undang together with the Hikayat. Abdullah
certainly must have been well aware of the fact that as a whole this text
could not be called an undang-undang; but he may have felt the link
between this kind of text and a Malay history to be quite natural and
have found nothing wrong with copying the text as he found it —
including the name at the end.

THE DIVISION INTO SIX PARTS
With regard to the rest of the Hikayat Patani, too, the question
whether we really have here a homogeneous text must be raised. There
are, in fact, strong reasons for doubting the unity of the Hikayat Patani
as contained in MS. A. The text can be conveniently divided into six
parts, and we have used this division throughout the present book:

I. The history of Patani during the rule of the Inland Dynasty
(PP- 1—74).
II. The story of Patani during the rule of the Kalantan Dynasty,
ending with the rule of Alung Yunus (pp. 74—78).
III. A summary of the Bendaharas of Patani (pp. 78—80).
IV. The story of the elephant doctor Cau Hang and his progeny, in­
cluding the Bendahara Datuk Cerak Kin (pp. 80—83).
V. The story of the death of Datuk Sai and the struggle between the
pretenders to the position of bendahara during the reign of the
Kalantan Dynasty (pp. 83—88).
VI. The Undang-Undang Patani (pp. 88—94).

When studying the relationship between the different parts the first