Archip. V.
572, II. 608-609; De Barros, Dec. II. 1. vi. c. 1; Comentarios do grande
Afonso d'Alboquerque, Pt. III. cap. xvii.; Couto, Dec. IV. liv. ii.;
Wade in Bowring's Kingdom and People of Siam, I. 72.)
[From I-tsing we learn that going from China to India, the traveller
visits the country of Shih-li-fuh-shi (Cribhoja or simply Fuh-shi =
Bhoja), then Mo-louo-yu, which seems to Professor Chavannes to
correspond to the Malaiur of Marco Polo and to the modern Palembang, and
which in the 10th century formed a part of Cribhodja identified by
Professor Chavannes with Zabedj. (I-tsing, p. 36.) The Rev. S. Beal has
some remarks on this question in the Merveilles de l'Inde, p. 251, and
he says that he thinks "there are reasons for placing this country
[Cribhoja], or island, on the East coast of Sumatra, and near Palembang,
or, on the Palembang River." Mr. Groeneveldt (T'oung Pao, VII. abst. p.
10) gives some extracts from Chinese authors, and then writes: "We have
therefore to find now a place for the Molayu of I-tsing, the Malaiur of
Marco Polo, the Malayo of Alboquerque, and the Tana-Malayu of De Barros,
all which may be taken to mean the same place. I-tsing tells us that it
took fifteen days to go from Bhoja to Molayu and fifteen days again to go
from there to Kieh-ch'a. The latter place, suggesting a native name Kada,
must have been situated in the north-west of Sumatra, somewhere near the
present Atjeh, for going from there west, one arrived in thirty days at
Magapatana; near Ceylon, whilst a northern course brought one in ten days
to the Nicobar Islands.
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