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312 HISTORY OF THE PROPAGATION troops of Mojopahit, was now in his turn defeated, and the consequence of the loss of the battle was the capture of Mojopahit, its eventual destruction, and the triumph of Mahomedanisni, which is well ascertained to have happened in the year of Sali- vana 1400, corresponding to 'V]S of the Chris- tian era. The leading circumstances of this account are no doubt correct, but there are some of the minu- ter parts of the detail irreconcilable with truth and probability. The most remarkable of these are the story of the princess of Champa^ and of the birth of Raden Patah, Champa, as already mention- ed, is a small state on the eastern coast of the gulf of Siam, the inhabitants of which are Hin- dus of the sect of Buddha, like the other people of farther India. The emigration of females is strictly forbidden in all these countries, and, there^ fore, it is not very likely that the king of Java, though of the same religion, should obtain a wife from that country ; and if he had, it is absurd to imagine that the vagabond priest of a foreign and hostile religion, should obtain in marriage her sister and the daughter of the king of the country. I'he probability is, that the wife of the king of Java Avas some liumble female, clandestinely withdrawn from Champa, and procured for the king of Java's ha- ram, by th^ instrumentality of some of the Arab traders themselves. This princess is alleged by