Cura Si Manjakini

For hundreds of years, the sword became a symbol of a rightful sovereignty and power in Malay culture.

[2] Another theory interprets the name as coming from the Tamil-Sanskrit curik meaning to cleave, man deriving from mantra, and dakini referring to the mythological figures in Hindu-Buddhist belief.

[citation needed] Tradition in the Malay Annals holds that the founder of the major line of rulers in the Malay world was a prince named Sang Sapurba, who alleged to be the descendant of Alexander The Great with his Persian wife.

The princes later descended into the great plain watered by the Palembang river, where Sang Sapurba married Wan Sendari, the daughter of the local chief, Demang Lebar Daun, and was everywhere accepted as ruler of the land.

[citation needed] At a later date Sang Sapurba is said to have crossed the great central range of Sumatra into the Minangkabau Highlands, where one of his warriors, Permasku Mambang, slew the great serpent Saktimuna using the legendary sword, and was made the king of a grateful people and the founder of the long line of Princes of Minangkabau.