Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c7.51

c7.51

The few definite facts, culled above, leave no doubt that by the beginning of the Christian era the Hindu Colonization had taken deep root in the soil all over the region from Burma in the north to Java and Annam in the south and south-east. This is also corroborated by the discovery of the images of Buddha of Amarāvatī style, of approximately second or third century A.D., The ground is literally stuffed with fragments of pottery whose decoration connects them with pottery found on other prehistoric sites of southern Indo-China and the Malay Peninsula. The shape of this pottery, when a vase is by chance discovered intact, is clearly Hindu in origin.