The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.228
The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.228
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About the end of the eighth century A.D. Dr. Hultzsch has published a Tamil inscription on a rock at Takōpa, Wat Nāmuang, in the Malay Peninsula at Maṇigrāmam² (the old name of the place), which speaks of a temple of Vishṇu there; also of a body of men, probably Hindu colonists, and of bow-men ‘men of the vanguard,’ who were evidently soldiers of a force placed there for protection of trade. (J. R. A. S. 1913, p. 337; 1914, p. 397.)