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=== Madja-as ===
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One theory espoused by some historians is that ten exiled [[datu]]s of the collapsing empire of [[Srivijaya]]<!--It's only Srivijaya, not Majapahit or anything else--><ref>Jovito S. Abellana, "Bisaya Patronymesis Sri Visjaya" (Ms., Cebuano Studies Center, ca. 1960)</ref> led by Datu Puti migrated to the central islands of the Philippines, fleeing from Rajah Makatunaw of the island of [[Borneo]]. Upon reaching the island of [[Panay]] and purchasing the island from Negrito chieftain Marikudo, they established a confederation of polities and named it [[Madja-as]] and they settled the surrounding islands of the [[Visayas]]. This is according to Pedro Monetclaro's book [[Maragtas]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sonia M. Zaide|title=The Philippines: a unique nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YMsNgAACAAJ|year=1999|publisher=All-Nations Pub.|isbn=978-971-642-071-5|pages=39 and note 19 on p. 416, which cites Dr. Juan C. Orendain, ''Ten Datus of Madiaas'' (Manila: Mabuhay Publ. 1963), Dr. Manuel L. Carreon, ''Maragtas: The Datus from Borneo'', Sarawak Museum Journal Vol. VIII (1957) pp. 51–99; and an 1858 manuscript by Fr. Tomas Santaren}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Abeto |first1=Isidro Escare |title=Philippine history: reassessed / Isidro Escare Abeto. |date=1989 |publisher=Metro Manila :: Integrated Publishing House Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library |page=54 |language=en |chapter=Chapter X – Confederation of Madyaas |quote=Already conceived while he was in Binanua-an, and as the titular head of all the datus left behind by Datu Puti, Datu Sumakwel thought of some kind of system as to how he could exercise his powers given him by Datu Puti over all the other datus under his authority.|oclc=701327689 }}</ref><ref>''Maragtas'' by Pedro Alcantara Monteclaro</ref> However, the actual personage of Rajah Makatunaw was mentioned in earlier Chinese texts about Brunei dating him to 1082, when he was the descendant of Seri Maharaja and he was accompanied by Sang Aji (the ancestor of Sultan Muhammad Shah). There is thus a disparity of dates between the Maragtas Book (based on oral legends) and the Chinese texts.<ref name="PreislamicBruneiKings">{{Cite web |url=https://bruneiresources.blogspot.com/2009/02/pre-islamic-kings-of-brunei.html |title=The Pre-Islamic Kings of Brunei By Rozan Yunos taken from the Magazine "Pusaka" published on year 2009. |access-date=December 9, 2023 |archive-date=December 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207180753/https://bruneiresources.blogspot.com/2009/02/pre-islamic-kings-of-brunei.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Historian Robert Nicholl also positively identify the pre-Islamic Bruneian Buddhist kingdom of Vijayapura, itself a Bornean tributary of the Srivijaya Empire in Palembang, and in earlier times was a rump state in Sarawak of the fallen [[Kingdom of Funan|Funan Civilization]] formerly at what is now Cambodia,<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/20174317?seq=4 Brunei Rediscovered: A Survey of Early Times By Robert Nicholl] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720181722/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20174317?seq=4 |date=July 20, 2021 }} p. 35 citing Ferrand. Relations, page 564-65. Tibbets, Arabic Texts, pg 47.</ref>{{rp|36}} this was the ancestral homeland of the Visayans of the 10 Datus of Panay.<ref>{{harvnb|Nicholl|1983|p=37}} (Sub-citation taken from Ferrand, Relations p. 333)</ref> Furthermore, he identified the Rajah Makatunao mentioned in the Maragtas book with Rajah Tugau of the Melano nation centered in [[History of Sarawak|Sarawak]]. Augustinian Friar Rev. Fr. Santaren recorded that Datu Macatunao or Rajah Makatunao who was the "sultan of the Moros," and a relative of Datu Puti who seized the properties and riches of the ten datus was eventually killed by the warriors named Labaodungon and Paybare, using native Filipino and Bornean recruits. This, after learning of this injustice from their father-in-law Paiburong, sailed to Odtojan in Borneo where Makatunaw ruled. The warriors sacked the city, killed Makatunaw and his family, retrieved the stolen properties of the 10 datus, enslaved the remaining population of Odtojan, and sailed back to Panay. Labaw Donggon and his wife, Ojaytanayon, later settled in a place called Moroboro. Afterwards, the datus in Panay, other Visayan islands, and southern Luzon were said to have founded various towns.<ref name="Talaguit">{{cite journal |last1=Talaguit |first1=Christian |title=Mga Maragtas ng Panay: Comparative Analysis of Documents about the Bornean Settlement Tradition |journal=De la Salle University, History Department |date=January 2020 |url=https://www.academia.edu/44240332 }}{{unreliable source?|date=September 2021}}</ref>