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This title is attested to elsewhere in Southeast Asia. The account of his life and those of his successors is given in the Malay Annals ; the historicity of the events as recorded there is debated by scholars, and some contend that Sang Nila Utama may be a mythical figure, even if the historicity of Singapore's 14th-century settlement is no longer disputed.

Even so, as De Jong argued in his article The Character of Malay Annals , the stories of the Malay Annals could have been realistically mixed with the historical figures and events. Sang Nila Utama was a Prince of Palembang, born to King Sang Sapurba , supposed descendant of Alexander the Great and a Bactrian princess, through his interpretation in Islamic legend as Iskandar Zulkairnan and the pseudo-mythical ancestor to many monarchs and chiefs of the Malay world.

He was wed to Wan Sri Bini, daughter of the widowed Queen Parameswari Iskandar Shah of Bintan Island and received high honours comprising a golden crown studded with precious stones and a royal signet ring indicating his authority. While hunting on Bintan, he spotted a stag and started chasing it up a small hill but, when he reached the top, the stag vanished.

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He then came to a very large rock and decided to climb it. When he stood on top of the rock, he looked across the sea and saw another island with a white sandy beach which had the appearance of a white sheet of cloth. Asking his chief minister what island it was, he was told that it was the island of Temasek now known as Singapore.

While his ship was out at sea, a great storm erupted and the ship was tossed about in the huge waves and began to take in water. To prevent it from sinking, his men threw all the heavy things on board into the sea to lighten the ship. But still water kept entering the ship. On the advice of the ship's captain, he threw his crown overboard as a gift to the sea.

At once, the storm died down and he reached Temasek safely. He landed safely on the beach, and went to hunt wild animals near the river mouth on a patch of open ground, now referred to as the Padang.