Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.42

c9.42

The Chinese annals refer to an invasion of a region in Tonkin in 767 A.D. by the people of Co-lon (Kuen-Luen) and of Daba, which has been identified with Cho-po or Java. Again the inscriptions of Java refer to at least two naval raids by foreigners, one in 774 and the other in 787 A.D. In the latter case the raiders are expressly said to be "the army of Java coming by means of ships." The third, certainly, and the other two, most probably, refer to naval expeditions sent by the Śailendra Mahārāja of Zābag whose great empire is described by the Arab writers.