Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.45
Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.45
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The oldest Sanskrit inscription in Indo-China is engraved on a block of granite found close to the village of Vo-canh in the province of Khanh-Hoa in South Annam. It records the donation made by a king belonging to the family of Śrī-Māra. As this inscription has been referred on palaeographic grounds to the second or third century A.D.,⁷ king Śrī-Māra must have flourished some time before it.