BeMgion.— Introduction of Mahometanism.— How far its tenets and Doctrines
are ohse^ed.—Priests.—How pr.ovide^yor^-How far 'the ancient Institutions,
of the Country are\uperjedef— Antjquities.-fEdifoes:.^ Ih e Temples
at Brambdnan— Boro B6do.— Gunung Brdhju.— Kediri^Sing’.a Sdri, SdJm,
p.-T7-ScU%>fure.— Images in Stone.— Casts}m Metal—Inscriptions on Stone
and. Copper. Coins.— Ruins, o f the. flneienf)Capitals at Medang KamiOan,
MajapdMA Pajajdran, %e.— Island o f jBili,— Conclusion. ,
I t has. already been stated, that |lxe.e^ahlislxed religion of the country ft
thaLpf Mahomet. The earliest allusion to-this faith made in the Javan
annals is in the twelfth, century of the Javan era (A( ’p . 1@50), when am unsuccessful
attempt appears to^haVe been made'tt> convert some of the Simda
princes.* Towards tjie close of the fourteenth century, several missionaries
established tli^selyes in^^s'tfira,provinces.; and according to the Javan
annals, and the universal tradition ^the,.country,-it was in the first year of the
fifteenth-century of the Javan era, or about theyearof our Lord1475, that the
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* See Chapters oh History.'