Malay land
In the older records dating back to 1 BCE to 600s CE, the 'Malay land' were initially called as the 'Malay island'. The historical records that mentioned about the Malay island is written in the Vayu Purana, which is a Sanskrit literature that referred Sumatra island as the Malayadvipa or Malayudvipa which means the 'Malay island' in Sanskrit language.