Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.48

c7.48

Reference is made in a Chinese history to an embassy sent to China in 132 A.D. by Tiao-pien, king of Ye-tiao. Pelliot recognised long ago the identity of Ye-tiao with Yavadvīpa, and Ferrand took the name of the king as a Chinese rendering of Sanskrit Deva-varman. If these identifications be accepted, we must date back the foundation of a Hindu Kingdom in Java towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century A.D. at the latest. It may be noted in this connection that the Sanskrit name Yavadvīpa also occurs in the *Rāmāyaṇa*.