Demak.
A. J . 1449. day, sieging himself În. çlanger from on^of/hena, to exclaim aloud that h.e
— belongs tp that family*
Division of the Not loqg after thq yetyirn of fdag? Mas, #ip i^and off Java was «gam
joined into, tyra ^epa^ate and independent government corresponding with
tjbe former limits q£ Majapdhit and P^ajarm- The eastern, proyinces
r^ dn ed subj;ect, tq foe Sultamof Dmdh, and the 'western, were, .oedsclr in
pgfpetOiity to Mvtdm Jbrdbm, with the, titk p l &iltan, l'a, both sultans
v§g resumed. thp r ig h t# dividing their lands on-theh- demise among their,
children, as.togy .might fo.mk proper. The Sémn: Kali Mga obtained as an
hereditary pr^pgrty* free irons all kinds of reqnisitions, the small district of
4§&émb if t fo% wQiviftçe ,<jf J£ne4h, where- he was afterwards toned.
h?0m this period until /he death off the Sultan of D$m&k\ the eastern
PÏ9Y<¥gc§?;. eidoyed ^tha mqsjt yndstjjçbed tranguïïüty;; but. the, Sultan of
found: §qme difficulty in establishing his authority; over- the west-
tern people, and in converting them, particularly those off Bantam. to:tfea
h^ahometan faith.
• ■ TTjp Snlfarj q£ Dam rib, bcstrlpo pov£râi"tiaturaJ cElidreri, had two so&S and'
font daughters. 'Qf.foese. ckughters^qnq wÿs marrigd tq a prince,
Who-te^de# at Ipmung l anotheri.Ra$g@,: to a SOU of the fylfot qf CAe-
riJm* who-wa% the chief of Bantam ; a tofoktp, Kddm Pàzÿix who after the"
return of the Sultan from Dhpifibop was. appointed chief QÎPqjmg péng’giïig^
and the.fourth fo,the sop, of.Pangsnm.K^m whoj.waa oh ÿ f ofjapdza. '
- mm* F^mgmm.^'mngg^k the third Sjuljtan of; JàetngJc^ died wthejyear 1^61.
basing previously made a division of bis dominions among his,children.
His eldest son, Aria, Bang’gq,. Was appointed- Sultan of Prawdta, to!'
which was annexed; all. the; land to the eastward along the i river-r^i#®
as.Sÿr.çibdgffi, tog^hter with,- DernoJt and;^eyp;â»g. -Hjs sonAndm„Pwg-
V»? KM N tim& and possessed all &§ districts/
of Japtfco, P â ti Rémbang, and Jjmdna. The 4clipdti of'Pqjm gi
Péngïging {Roden Pdnji) received the'title, of .Br&>0 PdtirX>£■ Pajmg and of
Matar.m, with the lands, attached to it. His son,. Mas- Timor, was appointed
Adwdtf, with the lands off K d ü màBdgalen. ffissori-mdaw^foe
Prince of MaMra, was made: chief of Madurd, Suménàp, Seddyu, GrésiJi,
Surabdya, and Pamruan, His youngest son, ' Bdden Pundhgsang,. was, ap-
pointedrch ieff à&Jîpmg. . ;
— U2S. The Sultan oî^Chévtboit, better known by the name ofSûnan QdnUng.
Jfiti,, died in 1428, at an advanced age,’'leaving three sons, by his .wife, the
princess
jriinoesS tof Demale, and Gtife son and a daughter bÿ à coheübine. This A-J* MZ8-
eldest son, $idse% succeeded him as Sultan of Ckérîbftk and Gf the provinces
lylfig- bifwes« the Chi-târum river and Tûgu, and stfëtcfiing in a southern
Section to the Kéndmg hills, fco as to include all the Pridng’hn districts
arid lands lying' to the êàsfc bff the Chi-tdrunu Prom this prince are
dëscended the présent Sultans of Chèrïban. To Bis sécorid son, Baradïn, hé left
the kibgdom of Bantam, which extended westwafd from the river of Tdn/g-
ran, to the êoUth-eaSt part of Sumatra, including all the islands in the
nttaits of 'S&NéktÀ Prorii him a#é détoendéd thu p-ekferit -kih^ o f Bantam.
Élis third son, faamed Chendmpui, died when jÿôung, and was buriëd ât
Màndu in Dfiêribon. To his natural son, Kâli JdMn, he ^signed the land's
lyifig between thé Ghitdram and Ttmg’ran rivers* Which had formerly
formed part of Chéribon arid Bantam.- .This prince assumed the* titlê of
t w 6£%kdrta or Jâhatra, fixing'his capital near the Jcampung of that name,
Where he and his descendants continued to reign, uhtil they Were expelled,
in the yéàr TSl9,off the Christian era, by the Dutch, who fcstablished on its
rttift'S'' the ïflodètn Batavia, the capital' of their • possessions - in the £ast-
ïtidiës.
The tomb'of the Susunan Génung Jâti, situated on the mount so caHed, at
a short' distance from the present town of Chéribon, is still an object of the
highest veneration and respeét»
• Thus was the anciènt ■ empire of Java divided under no less than eight
separate arid independent governments^ BOntam, Jdkdrtà, Chéribon, Prawd-
tat Kdlinidmat, P&jdng Ked&, and MaMfa ;■ toe several chiefs of which, in
gèiiëPiij-lither assumed toe title oîKidiGédé or Sultan, or toe More religions
distinction of Svnan.
- In- about a year after the death of the Sultan Tranggdm the country of
PAjang rose to considerable importance; its chief, oft account of his possessing
the regalia of state, being considered as the first in tank of the
several princes irftoe eastern districts. Hatred, euvy, and ambition, how-
évër, soon inflamed the breasts of the different princes of Java. The most
ambitious among them, and the first who disturbed the peace of toe country,
Was the Adipâti of Jipang, JRdden Pandngang. The history proceeds
thUS v.- ■ ; • ‘ . .
« The Adipdti of Jipang, by the advice o f -Stôna» Kûdiis, dispatched one
« of his body-guard, named Bahut, to Sultan Prawdta, with orders to
« watch an opportunity and assassinate him. On the arrival of BAJcut, it
X ^ “ happened