Old Pahang Kingdom

Mueang Pahang[1]
Pahang Tua[2]
449–1454
CapitalInderapura
Common languagesMalayic, Old Malay
Religion
Mahayana Buddhism[3]
GovernmentMonarchy
Maharaja 
• 449–?
Sri Bhadravarman
• ?–1454
Dewa Sura (last)
History 
• First diplomatic mission to China
449
• Second diplomatic mission to China
456
• Melakan invasion
1454
Succeeded by
Pahang Sultanate
Kingdom of Singapura
Today part ofMalaysia
Singapore

Old Pahang Kingdom (Malay: Kerajaan Pahang Tua[4]) was a historical Malay polity centred in the Pahang region on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula. The polity appeared in foreign records from as early as the 5th century[5] and at its height, covered much of modern state of Pahang and the entire southern part of the peninsula.[6] Throughout its pre-Melakan history, Pahang was established as a mueang[7] or naksat[8] of some major regional Malayic mandalas including Langkasuka,[9] Srivijaya[10] and Ligor.[11] Around the middle of the 15th century, it was brought into the orbit of Melaka Sultanate and subsequently established as a vassal Muslim Sultanate in 1470, following the coronation of the grandson of the former Maharaja as the first Sultan of Pahang.[12]

  1. ^ Rajani 1987, p. 87
  2. ^ Zakiah Hanum 1989, p. 44
  3. ^ Linehan 1973, pp. 8–9
  4. ^ Zakiah Hanum 1989, p. 44
  5. ^ Guy 2014, p. 29
  6. ^ Linehan 1973, p. 7
  7. ^ Rajani 1987, p. 87
  8. ^ Rajani 1987, p. 65
  9. ^ Farish A Noor 2011, p. 17
  10. ^ Farish A Noor 2011, p. 18
  11. ^ Linehan 1973, pp. 9–10
  12. ^ Khoo 1980, p. 9

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