Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.62

c9.62

¹¹ An ingenious suggestion has been made that a lady named Saṅgrāmavijaya-Dharmaprasādottuṅgadevī, who, from A.D. 1030 to 1041, held a very high position in the court of Airlaṅga, king of Java, was his queen, and either a daughter or widow of the Sailendra king Saṅgrāma-vijayottuṅga-varman mentioned above. This marriage is said to have cemented the alliance between the two old rival powers, which henceforth continued friendly relations with each other (Coedés, *Etats*. 247). In spite of the similarity of names we cannot definitely associate the lady in the court of Java with the Śailendra king. Even if the identity be accepted, it does not prove the continuanec of the Śailendras as a ruling power. For if the lady in question were the daughter of the Śailendra king, she might have been married before the Chola invasion. If she were the widow, it might be rather an evidence of the end of Śailendra rule, forcing his widow to take refuge in a neighbouring country, and afterwards marry its king.