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 800 ANCIENT HISTORY OF JAVA. Janggolo and Singhasari, the first in the district of Surabaya, and the last in that of Malang, both towards the eastern part of Java, are said to have flourished at the same time. One of the fabricat- ed accounts assigns to them the year 1082 of Sali- vana; another, S^Q-, and a third, 818; but an in- scription and a real date, in legible figures, enables us to determine that they flourished about the year 1242. * At Jdnggolo reigned the princes so famed in Javanese romance, and from them in those of the Malays and Balinese, under the name of PaTTJi. It would be in vain to attempt to extract an atom of true history from the absurd and inco- herent traditions respecting the princes of Jdng^ golo ; but it seems probable, that their authority extended over a considerable portion of the eastern part of the island, and that they displayed a con- siderable share of adventure, holding some con- nection with princes beyond the limits of the island, which was even, perhaps, extended to India. Pdjqjaran, t about forty miles from the modern city of Batavia, is pointed out by tradition as the on- ly ancient state of considerable extent, which ever flourished in the country of the Sundas. Its situa- ♦ All inscription found by my friend Dr Horsfield, in the eastern district of Panafarauy contains the date here alluded to, with the name of the prince and his queen, + This ford means arrangement*