Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.56

c9.56

Another equally interesting problem is the net result of the Chola conquest of the Śailendra empire. The king Saṅgrāma-vijayottuṅga-varman is said to have been caught, which presumably means captured. If we take it to be literally true, we do not know whether he was restored. The fact that the Chinese Chronicles refer to an embassy from the king of San-fo-tsi, named Si-li-tieh-hwa (Śrī Deva) in A.D. 1028, shows that Saṅgrāma-vijayottuṅga-varman was either not released, or even if restored, did not long survive his defeat.