and decided to stage a coup. He dispatched four trusted retainers to supposedly return to Samudra. However, at Peudada they turned back and reached the gate of the palace compound during the night. They told the palace guards that Samudra had been unexpectedly attacked by soldiers from Aru (approximately the later Deli Sultanate). When he heard the noise, Raja Bungsu came outside and was taken along on Alauddin's elephant. They went to Kota Batu where Alauddin's men promptly murdered the regent. Sultan Salahuddin and the queen mother were then put in confinement. Alauddin al-Kahar took the throne and led a successful reign until 1571. According to the inscription on his grave, Salahuddin died on 25 November 1548. Notes References Djajadiningrat, Hoesein (1911) 'Critisch overzicht van de in Maleische werken vervatte gegevens over de geschiedenis van het Soeltanaat van Atjeh, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 65, pp. 135–265. Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch Indië, Vol. 1 (1917). 's-Gravenhage & Leiden: M. Nijhoff & Brill. Hadi, Amirul (2004) Islam and State in Sumatra: A Study of Seventeenth-Century Aceh. Leiden: Brill. Iskandar, Teuku (1958) De Hikajat Atjeh. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff. Kalus, Ludvik & Clause Guillot (2013) 'La principauté de Daya, mi-XVe-mi-XVIe siècle', Archipel 85, pp. 201–36. Ricklefs, Merle C. (1994) A History of Modern Indonesia Since c. 1300, 2nd ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Sultans of Aceh 16th-century monarchs in Asia 1548 deaths 16th-century Indonesian people