Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c13.408
Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champā; Vol. II: Suvarṇadvīpa) v2.c13.408
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To the south-east of P'an-p'an, the Chinese locate a country called Kala or Kora. It is evidently the same as Keddah, which was the centre of trade and commerce between the east and the west and figures so prominently in later Arab accounts. Its ambassadors visited China between 650 and 656 A.D., and the following account² preserved in the New History of the T'ang Dynasty is apparently based on their report.