Sang Sapurba

Sang Sapurba is the founder-ancestor of the Malay kings. With two companions he appears upon Bukit Seguntang above Palembang, where the ripening rice turns to grains of gold and leaves of silver and a white bull disgorges a herald proclaiming his descent from Raja Suran and Iskandar Zulkarnain. Acclaimed sovereign, he binds with the Palembang chief Demang Lebar Daun the foundational covenant, or waad, between ruler and ruled, and marries the chief's daughter Wan Sendari. His line carries daulat, a sacred sovereignty so charged that a subject who commits treason, derhaka, is destroyed by it; from him descends Sri Tri Buana and the whole dynasty of Malacca and Johor.

Parentage

• parent: Raja SuranSejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 1. (primary)
• parent: Puteri Mahtabul BahriSejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 1. (primary)

Children

• Sang Nila Utama

Domains

• sacred kingship daulat

Powers

• bear royal daulat

Epithets

• Sang Sapurba Trimurti Tribuana — Sang Sapurba, [of the] Trimurti, Lord of the Three WorldsSejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 1. (primary)

Relations

• parent: Raja SuranSejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 1. (primary)
• parent: Puteri Mahtabul BahriSejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 1. (primary)
• child: Sang Nila UtamaSejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 2-3. (primary)
• ally: Demang Lebar DaunCovenant-partner and father-in-law through Wan Sendari.Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (1970), ch. 2. (primary)

Sources

• Sang Sapurba is the founder-ancestor who appears on Bukit Seguntang, is acclaimed king, and contracts the foundational covenant with Demang Lebar Daun, from whom the Malay royal line descends.: Sejarah Melayu (The Malay Annals), trans. C.C. Brown (Kuala Lumpur: MBRAS reprint, 1970), ch. 1-2. (primary)