Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.29

c7.29

I have elsewhere⁵ discussed in detail the location of Suvarṇā-bhūmi and Suvarṇa-dvīpa which figure prominently in Indian literature and are also referred to in Greek, Latin, Arabic and Chinese writings. There is hardly any doubt that they at first denoted, in a vague general way, both Indo-China and Indonesia, though in later times either name was applied to denote particular regions in this vast area.