Nan Sarunai

Nan Sarunai was the tribal kingdom of the Ma'anyan, a Dayak people of the Barito basin in South Kalimantan. Ma'anyan wadian chants and the Hikayat Banjar remember it as the earliest polity of the Banjar region. Its people, once seafarers with ancient links to the Malagasy of Madagascar, settled inland along the Tabalong river around Amuntai and Tanjung.

From 1309 Raden Japutra Layar built a more centralised state with Javanese-style titles; Raden Neno and Raden Anyan succeeded him.

Majapahit under Hayam Wuruk invaded between 1355 and 1362 and destroyed the kingdom. The victors established the tributary state of Negara Dipa on its ruins, the predecessor of Negara Daha and the Muslim Banjar Sultanate. Nan Sarunai's early history is hard to date because it survives mainly in oral tradition.