Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c10.22

c10.22

The learned scholar, whose views I have quoted above, refers to the date of Rājaśekhara as 1000 A.D. But as he was a court poet of the Pratīhāra king Mahendrapāla, he must have flourished towards the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century A.D. As the inscription which describes the learning of Indra-varman III of Champā is dated in 840 Śaka or 918 A.D., he was a contemporary of Rājaśekhara. As such, we may take *Mīmāṁsa-ṣaṭ-tarka* in the sense used by Rājaśekhara. It not only proves the great erudition of the king of Champā but also a close association between that country and India in respect of literature and philosophy.