The Historical Inscriptions of Southern India (collected till 1923) and Outlines of Political History c8.264

c8.264

[Sometime in the ninth century there was a colony of Tamil traders at Takua-pā (Takōpa) in Wat-Nāmuang, Malay Peninsula. A Tamil inscription has been found there belonging to this period. It shews that there was a temple of Vishnu at that place, which was the ‘refuge of the members of Maṇigrāman (a trading guild on the west coast) and of the bowman.’ Dr. Hultzsch published the record. He concludes that there was a colony of Tamils in the Malay Peninsula, guarded by soldiers. (J. R. A. S., April, 1913.)]¹