Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c10.34

c10.34

The two oldest inscriptions of Fu-nan are Vaiṣṇavite in character. The first begins with an invocation to Viṣṇu and records the pious donations of Kulaprabhāvatī, the chief queen of Jaya-varman. She installed a golden image of a god in Kurumbanagara, inhabited by Brāhmaṇas, and also built an *ārāma* (a park or a hermitage) with a tank and a dwelling house. The next inscription records the consecration of a footprint of Viṣṇu, called Cakratīrthasvāmin, by Guṇavarman, probably a son of Jaya-varman and Kulaprabhāvatī. The third inscription, belonging to the region of Rudra-varman, is too fragmentary to yield a complete sense. It begins with an invocation to Buddha and contains the eulogy of a Brāhmaṇa and his family.