Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c13.s2.t2.54
Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champā; Vol. II: Suvarṇadvīpa) v2.c13.s2.t2.54
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v2.c13.s2.t2.54
The Arab statement that Zābag was the borderland between India and China supports its location in the Malay Peninsula. For the port of Kalah is referred to by the Arab writers as the first Indian country in the neighbourhood of China, and 300 *parsangs* from the latter¹. If we remember that also Rahma (Pegu) and Khmer² are both regarded as parts of India, and that Djāwaga is described as ‘separating China from India, or at the eastern end of India, beyond the sea of Harkand, and to the west of China’³ we should naturally take Djāwaga as denoting the northern part of the Malay Peninsula and the countries adjoining to the north of it.