Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c13.419

v2.c13.419

There is, perhaps, reference to another old Hindu state in Malay Peninsula, but the question is unfortunately not free from doubt and difficulties. The Chinese annals of the Liang and First Sung Dynasty refer to a kingdom called Kan-to-li or Kin-to-li situated on an island in the southern sea¹. Neither T'ang nor later Sung annals refer to the kingdom, and it is not till we come to the History of the Ming Dynasty that we come across the name again. There it is definitely asserted that Kan-to-li was the old name of San-bo-tsai.