The Sri Lanang pedigree
R.J. Wilkinson’s short note (pp. 148–150) corrects and supplements the genealogy of the Bendaharas of Malacca as presented in his Malay History (3rd ed., 1923), responding to a passage in Dr. Winstedt’s article on the Bendaharas and Temenggongs.
Wilkinson argues on four grounds that the self-glorifying passage in the Malay Annals attributing titles and ancestry to Tun Sri Lanang was not written by Sri Lanang himself but interpolated after his death: it is absent from Blagden’s variant text; it contradicts Sri Lanang’s known humility; Dr. Rouffaer misread the closing words as referring to Baginda Mani Purindan rather than to Sri Lanang; and the genealogy contains an error Sri Lanang would not have made (p. 148). He further identifies Baginda Mani Purindan as an Indian merchant (a “Keling”) who engineered a coup in Malacca, and revises the list of Bendaharas to place Sri Lanang as the fourteenth rather than the eleventh holder of the office (p. 149). The note closes with two genealogical charts distinguishing the Malay house (from Tun Perpateh Permuka Berjajar) and the Indian house (from Baginda Mani Purindan), showing their intermarriage and the succession of Bendahara titles through to Tun Sri Lanang and his sons (p. 150).