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Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c8.30

Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c8.30

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c8.30

It is not easy to form a clear idea of the common boundary between Fu-nan and Champā in the third century A.D. The most important evidence in this respect is an inscription engraved on two faces of a block of granite, found close to the village of Vo-Chanh, near Nha-trang in the province of Khanh-Hoa, in southern Annam.⁵ The inscription is composed in Sanskrit and written in an Indian script of the second or third century A.D