The Colas c28.61
The Cōḷas c28.61
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c28.61
25. The real history of the division between the right hand and left hand sections of society may indeed date from a much earlier time than we suspect or even the *Śrutimāns* of the reign of Kulōttunga III believed. A Chinese author of the 3rd century, cited by another in the 10th, says of Fu-nan: ‘Les regions vassales ont toutes leurs mandarins; *les grands officers de droite et de gauche du souverain s' appellent tous K'ouen-louen'* P. Pelliot, Le Fou-nan, *BEFEO*, iii, p. 282; also vii. pp. 316-17 for the same feature in Campā.