The Lost City of Kota Gelanggi - cover up!

The Lost City of Kota Gelanggi

For those who read about it, you will recall that in 2005, the Malaysian Government was excited about accidentally finding an ancient civilization in Johor. This was reported in the various newspapers.

There was talks about excavating the huge site to rediscover this civilization. And then...silence! After that, no news at all about this discovery.

A number of times I have discussed with friends that there was definitely a cover-up because the authorities did not like what was discovered - something that is contradicting what the Government is trying to claim. And so many years passed and now I received this email revealing what I suspected to be true! Kindly do read on...

                 

Good to know who are the real Pendatang... The Indians and Chinese were here way before the Malays... You have to start learning the correct history.

Regards,

LEE Ong Kim (Dr)

(Associate Professor and Head of

Policy and Leadership Studies),

National Institute of Education,

NIE2-03-54, 1 Nanyang Walk,

Singapore 637616.

Tel: (6... GMT+8h | Fax: (65) 6896-9151 | Email:ongkim.lee@nie.edu.sgWeb: www.nie.edu.sgAn Institute of Nanyang Technological University

A small piece of History for our future generation. 

Why Kota Gelanggi (lost city) touted as the earliest civilisation in the Malay Peninsula news was banned? Because it was Buddhist!

The Johor find of 2005 which was quietly dropped was none other than the Kota Gelanggi lost city reflecting Srivijaya and its Buddhist splendour. But the government deliberately disregarded it because that would have sidelined the Malacca Empire and Islam which was smaller and only came some 500 years later. I met Dr Lee Kam Hing, a former History prof at MU in Singapore recently at a seminar. Dr Lee, who is now Star research director, told me he was trying his best to highlight Kota Gelanggi, but that the government killed it off. This is clearly another case to cover up the real history of Malaya and fool the younger generations into believing that our history only began from Malacca from 1400... Not only that, they try to show Parameswara as a Malay and Muslim, but actually he was Hindu! If one were to condemn these Malayan scumbags on how they distort history, it will never end...the condemnations will more than cover 10 PhD thesis! 

A small piece of History for our future generation; Hitler's public relations manager, Goebbels, once said, 'If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.' 

Once again our government wiped out any references to a famous Melaka prince as being Hindu and belonging to the powerful Hindu empire Sri Vijaya. So all of a sudden our museums, school text-books etc. all refer to Parameswara as a Malay prince. 

What race ruled or did not rule is beside the point. What is important is not to butcher history to create your own 'truths'. You cannot change your race even if you convert - Parameswara could have been responsible for Malaya's proud heritage of 'Ketuanan Melayu'. 

If this is what it is based on, there is no 'Ketuanan Melayu'. The lineages of Melaka Sultans are Indians, not Malays. It is no secret that Parameswara was an Indian and a Hindu prince. It is clear from records that Parameswara never converted to Islam. He was an Indian Hindu who fled Palembang in Sumatra to eventually found Melaka circa 1400 AD. It was Sri Maharaja who converted himself and the court of Melaka to Islam, and as a result took on the name of Sultan Muhammad Shah sometime after 1435.

The most famous of Indian Hindu Kings were Raja Chola and his son Rajendra Chola who invaded Southern Thailand, Kedah, Perak, Johor and Sumatra about 1000 AD. This is Raja-raja Chola - the Indian/Hindu kings and not Raja Chulan - a Malay king. But what is really sad is that our children are taught as though Malaysian history suddenly began in 1400 with an Islamic Melaka. 

We are led to believe that the Indians and Chinese first arrived on the shores of Malaysia in about 1850 as desperate indentured labourers, farmers and miners. Nothing could be further from the truth. 

The cultural influences of India in particular, and China, in South East Asia span over 2,000 years, starting with the arrival from India of the Brahmanical prince/scholar - Aji Saka in Java in AD78, through to Vietnam, Cambodia (Indo China), Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Bali, Borneo, Brunei and beyond.

R.C. Jamieson, Keeper of Sanskrit Manuscripts at the University of Cambridge, Britain, said the origin of the illustration which showed a former Buddha, Dipamkara, making a gesture of reassurance and holding a fold of his robe at his shoulder in a temple in Java had yet to be verified. 

“However, we must bear in mind that Java then might not have been just the present island alone. At the time of The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines (Astasahasrikaprajnaparamita) manuscript, the term encompassed Sumatra and part of the Malay peninsula. 

“The manuscript states that the image was taken around 1015AD,” he said in an e-mail interview from London. 

(Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2005/02/06/1000yearold-image-of-temple-may-be-that-of-kota-gelanggi/#lLbSaaVJ6uyw7iXY.99)

Manuscript leads to lost city

It was an old Malay manuscript once owned by Sir Stamford Raffles, the founder of Singapore, in a London library that led Raimy Che-Ross to the existence of the lost city in Johor.  

According to Raimy, the presence of a lost city in the jungles at the southern end of the Malay peninsula had been indicated in Malayan forklore for over four centuries. 

His findings on the lost city has been published in the latest issue of Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 2004.  

In his paper, he said the place was raided by the Indian-Chola conqueror Raja Rajendra Cholavarman I, of the South Indian Chola Dynasty in 1025A.D. 

The ruins could be as old as Borobodur, and could pre-date Angkor Wat, Raimy said, adding that aerial photographs taken over the site and tales from the orang asli had indicated the existence of structures.

 “From the air I could see formations which looked like a set of double-walls, protecting the inner city. 

“I have verified all the information by reviewing and reassessing old colonial records and travellers tales,” he said. 

Information on Kota Gelanggi appears in the Sejarah Melayu (Malay Annals) which was edited and revised by Tun Seri Lanang, the Bendahara (equivalent to the prime minister of a sultanate) of the Royal Court of Johor in 1612 A.D. 

The manuscript narrated an account of the devastating raids by Raja Rajendra Cholavarman I, who after destroying the city of Gangga Negara (now Beruas in Lower Perak) turned his attention to Kota Gelanggi. 

Raimy said he did not expect to find in Kota Gelanggi structures similar to Angkor Wat, as the lost city in Johor Gelanggi was much older. 

“We can expect to find simple granite and brick structures, walls, buildings and possibly undisturbed tombs. 

“Based on the data I have collected and consultations with archaeologists over the years, it is believed that Kota Gelanggi in Johor, which some scholars believe to be the kingdom of Lo-Yue, was also the first centre of trade for Sri Vijaya. 

“It was in Johor that the whole Malay civilisation was born. The Sri Vijaya site in Palembang has artefacts which date back to the 13th or 14th century,” he said. 

“There is a wealth of information we can derive from this city. 

He said that official Japanese records noted that an Imperial Crown Prince of Japan, Prince Takaoka, Shinnyo Hosshinno, reportedly met his death in Lo-Yue after being attacked by a tiger. Perhaps we may find his tomb here,” he said. 

Raimy said that while its main activity was a trading post, Kota Gelanggi was also a centre of sacred learning.  

“Hinduism and Buddhist statues and figurines may exist but what I hope to find is epigraphic inscriptions (writings on granite),” he added. 

The findings at Bujang Valley speak of an ancient Indian/Hindu presence in Kedah. There were Chinese settlements in Pahang and Kelantan around the 13th-14th century and in 12th century in Singapore.

The early Brunei Sultanate had a Chinese Queen. One need not ponder at length the implications of Angkor Wat and Borobudur or that 40%-50% of Bahasa Malaysia comprises Sanskrit words. To illustrate, some of these words are:

bumi = boomi singgasana = singgasanam 

putra = putran perdana = pirathamar 

raja = rajah menteri = manthiri 

desa = thesa kapal = kappal 

syakti = sakthi samudra = samuthiram 

kolam = kulam sepatu = sappattu 

bahaya = abahya

jaya = jeya

maha = maha

aneka = aneha

nadi = naadi

kedai = kadai

mahligai = maaligai

mantra = manthrum 

tandas = sandas

(This list can go on)

An extremely important archaeological find that pointed to one of the greatest empires in history - the Raja Chola empire that ruled from the Maldives through India , Sri Lanka and right down to South East Asia found deep in the jungles of Johor a few years ago and made headlines in the mainstream newspapers in 2005, suddenly disappeared from the news❗ 

The time has arrived for us to record our history as the facts tell us and not as we would like to wish it. The truth will never hurt anyone. Lies, always will.

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