Raja Suran

Raja Suran is a world-conquering monarch of the Sejarah Melayu, reckoned a descendant of Iskandar Zulkarnain, the Islamic Alexander the Great. Marching through the peninsula in conquest, he has a chamber of glass constructed and is lowered to the floor of the ocean, where he reaches the submarine kingdom of Dika and weds the sea-princess Puteri Mahtabul Bahri, daughter of its ruler. Their union seeds the royal line that later manifests upon Bukit Seguntang at Palembang, making Raja Suran the deep ancestor of the Malacca and Johor dynasties. The name Chulan preserves a memory of the Chola conquerors of the Straits.

Children

• Sang Sapurba

Domains

• kingship conquest
• sea descent

Powers

• descend beneath the sea

Epithets

• Raja Chulan — King Chulan (reflecting the Chola name)Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 1. (primary)

Relations

• spouse: Puteri Mahtabul BahriSejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 1. (primary)
• child: Sang SapurbaAncestor of the line that appears at Bukit Seguntang.Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 1. (primary)

Sources

• Raja Suran is a world-conquering king of the Sejarah Melayu, reckoned a descendant of Iskandar Zulkarnain, who descends beneath the sea and marries the princess Puteri Mahtabul Bahri.: Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (Kuala Lumpur: MBRAS reprint, 1970), ch. 1. (primary)