Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.68

c9.68

Airlaṅga was the son-in-law of the Javanese king who died shortly after the great catastrophe of A.D. 1006. There was a complete political disintegration of Java, and Airlaṅga, then aged sixteen, fled and took refuge in a hermitage at Vanagiri. In A.D. 1010 the principal chiefs and Brāhmaṇas of Java approached him with a request to ascend the throne of his father-in-law, and in A.D. 1019 he was formally consecrated to the throne with the title of Śrī Lokeśvara Dharmavaṁśa Airlaṅga Anantavikramottuṅgadeva. By a series of fights, he brought the whole of the island under his control and once more restored its prosperity. His records contain a long list of foreigners who used to come to Java for purposes of trade or other peaceful pursuits of life. The list includes Kliṅg or Kaliṅga, Siṁhala, Draviḍa, Karṇāṭaka, Champā and Kmir, *i.e.* Khmers of Kambuja.