Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c8.4

c8.4

¹ According to L. Finot (*J. A.* CCX, 486; *Melange S. Levi*, 203) Fu-nan corresponds to Kurun bnam *i.e.* king of mountain, a title which he identifies with the expression *parvata-bhūpāla* referred to in the Han Chei Temple Inscription (No. 12, v. 10). As Coedés has drawn important conclusions from this by way of associating Śailendras with Fu-nan (*JGIS*, I. 67) it is necessary to point out that the expression *parvata-bhūpālān* means kings of mountains *i.e.* hilly regions and may be taken in a general sense without reference to any particular king, far less that of Fu-nan. The same thing may be said of the expression *Śaila-rāja* in the unpublished inscription of Kuk Prah Kot, referred to by Coedés.