Indian Epigraphy c14.12

c14.12

In this connection, attention may be drawn to the traditions regarding the Indian colonisers in the said countries, e.g., the Ceylonese story of the conquest of the island by Vijaya, a great-grandson of the king of Vaṅga (then Southern Bengal); the foundation of Ligor ascribed to one of Aśoka’s descendants, who fled from Magadha (South Bihar) and embarked on a vessel at Dantapura lying near modern Srikakulam in the ancient Kaliṅga country comprising wide areas of the coast lands of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh; the story preserved in the Javanese chronicles as well as in the traditions of many other islands regarding the colonisation of the lands in question by the people of Kaliṅga (generally called Kling);¹ a tradition of Pegu regarding the colonisation of the Irawady delta and the adjoining coast lands of Burma by the people of the lower valleys of the Kṛṣṇā and the Godāvarī in the eastern coast lands of the Deccan; the story in the Javanese chronicles regarding the colonisation of the island by a prince of Gujarāt in 75 A.D.; etc.