Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c12: Additions and Corrections
Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champā; Vol. II: Suvarṇadvīpa) v2.c12
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Page 7, l. 5. Mr. Oldham has definitely identified Paloura with the "existing village of Pālūru at the northern extremity of the Ganjām district, about 6 miles N.E. of Ganjām town." (J.B.O.R.S., Vol. XXII, pp. 1 ff.).
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Page 25, f.n. 2. Reference may be made to the following statement: "The Malay Peninsula is the fatherland of the Malays who colonised centuries ago Sumatra......" (T'oung Pao 1898, p. 370.).
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Page 27, ll. 8-16. For a recent example in the neighbourhood of Vanasari (Jogyakerta), cf. T. B. G., 1935, pp. 83 ff.
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Page 29, f.n. 1. Add at the end: "and 'History of Malaya (1935) Chapter I."
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Page 81, l. 5. The scholars are now inclined to refer the seal to about 600 A.D. Cf. J. Mal. Br. R.A.S., Vol. XII (1934), p. 173; Vol. XIII (1935), p. 110; J.G.I.S., Vol. II, p. 71.
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Pages 96-7. Mr. H. B. Sarkar suggests (J.A.S.B., Vol. XXIX, pp. 17-21) that as a result of the conquests of Skandagupta, a large body of Śakas from Gujarat, under a local chieftain, probably Aji Śaka by name, emigrated to Java and introduced the Śaka Era. The arguments in support of this theory do not appear to me to be very convincing.
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Page 99. paras 1-2. Dr. J. Przyluski holds that 'the most ancient travellers did not make a clear distinction between the islands of Java and Sumatra, and these two great islands formed the continent of Yava. Probably for Ptolemy and for all the ancient geographers Yava is Java-Sumatra.' (J.G.I.S., Vol. I, p. 93)
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Page 106, ll. 9-11. A Shell inscription is engraved at Ci-Arutön below the foot-prints of king Pūrṇavarman. Dr. K. P. Jayaswal reads it as "Śrī Pūrṇavarmanah" ( Ep. Ind., Vol. XXII, p. 4 ), but it is, at best, doubtful.
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Mr. F. M. Schnitger draws attention to a reference to Tarumapur in an inscription of Kulottunga (S.I.I., Vol. III, Part 2, p. 159). It is about ten miles north of Cape Comorin, the region from which Agastya worship spread to the Archipelago. Schnitger finds in the name Taruma an additional argument for the southern origin of Pūrṇavarman (T.B.G., 1934, p. 187.).
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Page 142, ll. 4-5. Cf. also Schlegel's views ( T'oung Pao, Ser. II, Vol. II, pp. 109 ff. ).