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seas, and this generally refers to Malays.
A chain of kings
129 VT 72 and CM 171 add ‘This karaeng of Gowa, karaeng of Talloq, when the karaeng of the
people of Maros died out, he also was the first taken as karaeng by the people of Maros’ (anne
karaenga ri Goa karaenga ri Talloq puttai karaenna tuMarusuka iatommi pole uru nialle karaeng ri tuMarusuka).
130 Using slightly different language, both AL 158 (lebang sitaung laqbuna mantama Isilang) and
VT 72 (lebangi sitaung bella mantama Isilang) note that this took place one year after his conversion
and omit the month and year the birth took place.
131 All other manuscripts (KIT 22, AL 158, VT 72, SBPK 107, CM 172) note his Arabic name,
replacing the phrase ‘whose personal name’ (areng kalena) with ‘whose Arabic name was
Malikussaid. His Makassarese name…’ (areng Araqna nikana Malikussaid areng Mangkasaraqna).
132 KIT 22, SBPK 107, VT 72, AL 158, and CM 172 insert an additional name that the writer of
BL 26r might simply have forgotten. They add that his karaeng-title before he ruled was ‘Karaeng
ri Ujung. It was changed again and he was called…’ (Karaeng ri Ujung nilesang pole nikanaseng).
133 This name is garbled in BL 26r. The name used here is found in SBPK 107 and VT 72. Other
texts have similar spellings (AL 158 I Mataia; KIT 22 Matainung; CM 172 I Mainung).
134 KIT 22 and VT 72 add that ‘he was called I Daeng Melu’ (nikanaya I Daeng Melu); CM 172
and AL 158 add ‘he was called I Daeng Malu’ (nikanaya I Daeng Malu).
135 While the word order in BL 26r suggests that I Kare Sallang is the mother’s name and that
she is from Bacukiki, KIT 22, VT 72-73, CM 172, and AL 158 have a different word order indicating
that this is the name of his wife and that it is her mother alone who is from Bacukiki. These
texts read ‘another of his wives was Kare Sallang. Her mother, one from Bacukiki, was brought
up here’ (sitau pole bainena nikana Kare Sallang anronna tuBacukiki nilalinga manaiq mae).
136 KIT 22, SBPK 108, VT 73, AL 158, and CM 173 write ‘her father’ (manggenna) in place of
‘another’ (sitau pole). In this case the father’s name would be I Kare Talesang.
137 KIT 24, VT 74, AL 159, and CM 174 give this number as forty-three years.
138 This total number of days is obviously in addition to the two years. KIT 24 and VT 74 have
two hundred and eighty-six nights. AL 159 is indistinct and both SBPK 110 and CM 174 omit
this phrase (see the next note).
139 CM 174 adds here ‘Karaeng Tumenanga ri Gaukanna, the number of nights was nine
hundred and fifty-six nights’ (Karaenga Tumenanga ri gaukanna bilang banngina salapang bilangana
allimampulo anngannang banngina). The writer of CM (or its ancestor) may have retotaled the
number of nights in an effort to correct the misleading figure found in manuscripts BL 26v, KIT
24, and VT 74. SBPK 110 omits this entire section about dating, from (inclusive) ‘Thirty-four
years after becoming Muslim…’ to ‘…he died too’.
140 This is missing in BL 26v, but probably represents simple scribal error because the next
sections give genealogical information about the descendants of these two tumailalang. KIT 24-
25, AL 159, SBPK 110, and CM 174 contain this addition (natumailalangang Karaenga ri Marusuq
Karaenga ri Patteqne nagappangiji).
141 KIT 25, VT 74, CM 175, and AL 160 spell this I Mappaganti; SBPK 110 I Paganti.
142 KIT 25, SBPK 110, VT 74, and CM 175 add an additional genealogical layer here which
may mistakenly have been telescoped and omitted in BL 26v. They read ‘…she was married
by Karaeng ri Pattungang and had a child: Karaeng ri Batupute’ (iami nabaineang Karaenga ri
Pattungang naanaqmo Karaenga ri Batupute). AL 160 simply replaces Karaenga ri Batupute with
Karaenga ri Pattungang.
143 AL 160 omits from ‘Karaeng ri Maroanging…’ to ‘…because he was the child of an
equal…’.
144 Other texts contain more information about Karaeng ri Maroanging and his mother. KIT is