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Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c14.t6.34

Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champā; Vol. II: Suvarṇadvīpa) v2.c14.t6.34

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v2.c14.t6.34

More than hundred years later, Wang Ta-Yuen³ (1349 A.D.,) writes about Pu-ni, that its people worship Buddha images and possess unusual skill in arithmetic and book-keeping. This is an unmistakable evidence that at least a part of the people of Borneo possessed some amount of culture and civilisation, and that of Hindu origin.