Princess suggested a seventh request: a bowl containing the royal prince’s blood.

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On top of Mount Ledang, the stunning Princess of Gunung Ledang led a contented life. The princess had to devise a plan to turn down the overbearing Sultan of Melaka’s advances. She devised dowry demands that she was certain the Sultan could not meet. Unfortunately, the Princess suggested a seventh request: a bowl containing the royal prince’s blood. The Sultan granted all six wishes and was about to accept his reward. First documented in Sulalatus Salatin (Genealogy of Kings), a historical literary work of the Malay Sultanate in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, is the legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang (Princess of Gunung Ledang). Known more popularly as the Malay Annals or