The Colas c18.49.4

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there is also an overland route (between the two countries).' Gerini identifies Tan-ma-ling with Temiling or Tembeling at the mouth of the Kwān-tan river in Pahang, on the East coast of the Malay peninsula;¹²⁵ on this identification the learned translators of Chau Ju-kua observe: 'As our author states that a land route existed between Tan-ma-ling and Ling-ya-ssi-kia, which we have good reason to believe was about Kedah on the West coast of the peninsula, it seems safe to conclude that Tan-ma-ling cannot have been very far from where Gerini has located it.' Blagden points out as against this view, that six days would be rather a short time for sailing between Kedah and Kwāntan considering the weak monsoon of the straits of Malacca; Coedès overcomes the difficulty by supposing that the country of Tāmraliṅga or Laṅkāśuka or perhaps both occupied the peninsula in all its width and faced the gulf of Siam as well as the Straits.¹²⁶ Ilāmuridēśam is quite obviously the country in the northern part of the island of Sumatra, known to Arab geographers under the name Lamuri, called Lambri by Marco Polo, and figuring as Lan-wou-li in Chau Ju-kua's enumeration of the subject states of San-fo-tsi. Mānakka-vāram, it is equally clear, applies to the Nicobars.