Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.38

c7.38

Side by side with the stories of individual Hindu chiefs founding the different colonial kingdoms, we have also many traditions of small Indian settlements having developed into important kingdoms. Thus according to traditions current in Pegu Hindu colonists from the country of the lower courses of the Krishna and Godavari had, at a remote time, crossed the sea and formed settlements in the delta of the Irawadi and on the adjoining coast. Later, some of these settlers founded the kingdoms of Thaton and Pegu. Similar traditions are current about the Hindus from the Kaliṅga coast having colonised Java and other islands.