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Taporobana might also be a hidden reference to Tribhuvana, the great Hindu Triad. This could mean that Luís de Camões was sayng that the portuguese were going beyond the Earth, the Atmosphere and the Sky, in their epic quest, "Os Lusíadas", as noted by Dalila Pereira da Costa.
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Taprobana is actually Ceylon, although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra on some maps.
Taprobana, as it was called on most early maps, was an important post for trade between the east and the west, and was drawn too large on many maps because of its importance.
There are many other myths about Taprobana too- that there was a race of men there that had tails, or a 4-headed snake whose heads would point North, South, East and West.
The dispute as to whether he is originally from Sumatra in Indonesia, Malacca in Malaya or Cebu in the Philippines can easily be resolved by going to eyewitness accounts where his origin is quite precisely stated.
(Taprobana in Ptolemy's map is the name of present-day Ceylon.) Pigafetta also says he is from that place but spells it Zamatra.
It is not certain how old he was when Magellan bought him in the slave market of Malacca.
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