Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c10.76

c10.76

An interesting account of the people of Fu-nan is given in a Chinese text composed at the beginning of the sixth century A.D. It shows the great changes that had come over them as a result of the Indian colonization. The most important of these was the wearing of clothes. As mentioned above, both men and women went about naked when Kauṇḍinya first landed in the country about the first century A.D. Even the Nāga princess he married had no clothes on. But we read in the Chinese account mentioned above that the men of noble families use *Sarong* made of brocade. The poor people covered their bodies with a piece of cloth.