Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.49

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c7.49

The discovery of isolated Brāhmī alphabets on stones in Burma carries back the association of the Hindus with this region to the first two centuries of the Christian era. According to Chinese chronicles of the third century A.D., a kingdom called Lin-yang, which has been located by some scholars in Central Burma, had a Buddhist population of over 100,000 families including several thousand monks.

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