Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c14.t6.8

v2.c14.t6.8

As noted before, in A. D. 1522 Henrique Leme visited the Hindu king of Suṇḍa, called Samian (i.e. Sanghyang), who was friendly to the Portuguese merchants coming to his harbours. As a result of this visit, the Portuguese obtained the right of building a fort at Kalapa (near modern Batavia). The Portuguese could not carry this project into execution for four years, and when at last in 1526 they came back to Suṇḍa, they found it under a Muhammadan ruler, named Falatehan, who had come from Pase in Sumatra, and conquered the kingdom with the help of the king of Japara. The Portuguese had to return without accomplishing anything. Thus Suṇḍa must have passed into the hands of Muhammadan rulers some time between 1522 and 1526 A. D. Whether Pati Unus, chief of Japara, was its conqueror, as Barros states, has been, as noted above, doubted by Rouffaer. But even according to the later Portuguese accounts, the chief of Japara i. e. Pati Unus, who died in 1522, or his son, had some hand in the conquest. There is nothing improbable in the assumption that Pati Unus, aided by other Muslim chiefs, overthrew Suṇḍa and Majapahit about the same time, and in that case Falatehan, one of the confederate chiefs, might have been ruling in Suṇḍa, while Pati Unus was ruling in Majapahit. In any case it is certain that the Hindu kingdom of Suṇḍa was overthrown by the coastal Muhammadan chiefs between 1522 and 1526 A.D.