 The Kingdom of Tondo once ruled in the vicinity of Manila before it briefly became a province of the Hindu Majapahit Empire . During the Brunei invasion of the Philippines , Sultan Bolkiah of Brunei captured Seludong ( a village in modern @-@ day Manila ) and renamed it Maynilà , a Tagalog term referring to the presence of the Nila shrub . Maynila was a vassal state of Brunei , established to overpower Tondo . Maynilà had been Indianized since the sixth century CE and earlier . It had become partly Islamic and Hindu @-@ animist by the 15th century CE . 
 The Kingdom of Tondo once ruled in the vicinity of Manila before it briefly became a province of the Hindu Majapahit Empire . During the Brunei invasion of the Philippines , Sultan Bolkiah of Brunei captured Seludong ( a village in modern @-@ day Manila ) and renamed it Maynilà , a Tagalog term referring to the presence of the Nila shrub . Maynila was a vassal state of Brunei , established to overpower Tondo . Maynilà <a href='been_done' title='1'><mark>had</mark></a> been Indianized since the sixth century CE and earlier . It <a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>had</mark></a> become partly Islamic and Hindu @-@ animist by the 15th century CE . 
Da Kingdom of Tondo once ruled in tdavicinity of Manila before it briefly became a province of the Hindu Majapahit Empire . During the Brunei invasion of thdahilippines , Sultan Bolkiah of Brunei captured Seludong ( a village in modern @-@ day Manila ) and renamed it Maynilà , a Tagalog term referring to thedaesence of the daa shrub . Maynila was a vassal state of Brunei , established to overpower Tondo . Maynilà done been Indianized since the sixth century CE and earlier . It done become partly Islamic and Hindu @-@ animist by the 1da century CE .