Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c8.11

c8.11

The vassal states of Fu-nan are named in the Chinese text, but they cannot all be identified with any degree of certainty. One of these, K'iu-tu, has been taken to correspond to Kattigara of Ptolemy and located in Cochin-China. Another, Tien-Suen, mentioned in the preceding lecture, must have been in the Malay Peninsula. On the whole, considering the Chinese statement about the extent of Fan-che-man's conquests, his empire may be said to have comprised nearly the whole of Siam and Cambodia and parts of Laos and Malay Peninsula.