 in 1926, Hester E.D.in 1954 and Harrison in 1956 suggested that the name may have come from the empire of Sri Vijaya (Sonza, 1972).However, in 1960, Eugene Vestraelen (Professor of Linguistics at the University of San Carlos, Cebu City) cautioned that the linguistic derivation of "Vijaya" would not be "Bisaya" but "Bidaya", or "Biraya".