Note 56 — Chapter XII · THE SPREAD OF ISLAM IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.
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The King of Majapahit had married a daughter of the prince of Champa, a small state in Cambodia, east of the Gulf of Siam.56 She being jealous of a favourite concubine of the King, he sent this concubine away to his son Arya Damar, governor of Palembang in Sumatra, where she gave birth to a son, Raden Patah, who was brought up as one of the governor’s own children. This child (as we shall see) was destined in after years to work a terrible vengeance for the cruel treatment of his mother. Another daughter of the prince of Champa had married an Arab who had come to Champa to preach the faith of Islam.57 From this union was born Raden Raḥmat, who was carefully brought up by his father in the Muhammadan religion and is still venerated by the Javanese as the chief apostle of Islam to their country.58