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III The Gowa chronicle 59
Karaeng Tumamenang ri Makkoayang went and summoned his elder sibling to come out from
there. Agreeing, he was brought out of there. [After] forty-eight nights in the house he died of
disease, unable to eat food or swallow. Eighteen years he ruled, then left power’ (anne Karaenga
maballasamemmami namaqlampa mantama ri Papolong nailalammo ri bentenga maballasaqdudu poso
naiassengi Karaenga Tumamenang ri Makkoayang mangemi natenai kakaqna suluq mae mammioqmi
naerammi suluq mae napatampulo banngi assagantuju ri ballaqna namate garrinna tamanaungai kaqdoka
naaluq sampulo sagantuju taunna magauq nanapilari gaukanna). SBPK in general is the most divergent
of the chronicle texts.
86 VT 62 adds ‘Only seven nights after the death of Tunipalangga, Balu Maqlonjoka was
married by Karaeng Tunibatta’ (tuju banngiji matenna Tunipalangga nanibaineang Balu Maqlonjoka
ri Karaenga Tunibatta). CM 159 inserts the same passage with the addition of ‘Karaeng’ before
‘Tunipalangga’.
87 KIT 9, SBPK 93, VT 62, and CM 160 use the word for ‘walls’ (batana) instead of ‘fortifications’
(bentenna), but the meaning is the same.
88 See note 22 above on Makassarese terms of spatial orientation.
89 CM 160 has ‘and she’ (naia) in place of ‘and the mother of’ (naayang), a significant change
since it suggests a change in topic and does not explain where Karaeng Mapeqdeka came from.
VT 63 too omits the phrases ‘She was the mother of Karaeng Tunijalloq and the mother of’ (iami
naayang Karaenga Tunijalloq naayang), instead awkwardly inserting ‘and the karaeng-title’ (siagang
areng pakaraenganna). It is worth noting that this part of the chronicle recounting the marriage
and brief events of Tunibatta’s life has more variation than typically found in the chronicle
manuscripts.
90 KIT 9-10 inserts ‘Karaeng ri Bisei, his royal name was I Daeng Tonji’ (Karaenga ri Bisei
kana pamanaqna nikana I Daeng Tonji). More explicitly, VT 63 inserts, ‘Tunibatta by Daeng
Mangkasaraq had a son named Karaeng ri Bisei. His royal name was I Daeng Tonji’ (Tunibatta ri
Daeng Mangkasaraq buraqne nikana Karaenga ri Bisei areng pamanaqna nikana I Daeng Tonji). Even
more explicitly, CM 160 inserts ‘Another child of Tunibatta by I Daeng Mangkasaraq was a son
named Karaeng ri Bisei. His royal name was I Daeng Tonji’ (sitau pole anaqna Tunibatta ri I Daeng
Mangkasaraq buraqne nikana Karaenga ri Bisei areng pamanaqna nikana I Daeng Tonji).
91 Some texts assert that Karaeng Mapeqdaka married Karaeng ri Sanrabone, not that she had
a child with this title. SBPK 93 for example, begins this section ‘Karaeng Mapeqdaka was married
by Karaeng Sanrabone. His posthumous name was Tumamenang ri Parallakkenna’ (Karaenga
Mapeqdaka nibaineang ri Karaenga Sanrabone areng matena nikana Tumamenang ri Parallakkenna).
SBPK 93-4 then adds ‘Tumamenang ri Campagaya’ after ‘Karaeng ri Sanrabone,’ which would
mean that Karaeng Mapeqdaka married one ruler of Sanrabone and had a son who succeeded
his father in the same position. More simply, CM 160 has ‘married’ (ambaineangi) for ‘she had
children’ (iami anganakangi), which would mean that she married Karaeng ri Sanrabone rather
than had a child with this title.
92 KIT 10, VT 63, and CM 160 omit the name Tumatea ri Joroq. I interpret this as the name of
I Daeng Mangappa’s father, but it could also be the posthumous name of I Daeng Mangappa.
93 Several texts give additional information about her fate in Surabaya not found in BL 29r.
In place of ‘She went over to Surabaya’, VT 63 reads ‘This child purportedly was married by the
ruler of Mataram and had a child: I Raden Papa’ (anaqmaminne bedeng nibaineang ri Karaenga ri
Matarang anaqmi I Raden Papa). KIT 10 and CM 161 have nearly identical passages. This information
could well have been incorporated into the chronicle by a later writer.
94 BL 29r is clearly missing a section here, which I have taken from KIT 10 (mammanaq rua
sitau baine sitau buraqne iami baineang). SBPK 94, VT 63, and CM 161 add nearly identical sections.
95 KIT 11, SBPK 95, VT 64, and CM 161 have ‘among the karaeng’ (paranna karaeng) for ‘among
his own’ (sakotuna).