Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.7
Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.7
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c9.7
It would thus appear that by 686 A.D., Śrī-Vijaya was already a powerful kingdom having extended its authority to Jambi, Banka and other regions in the neighbourhood, and had sent a military expedition against the island of Java, separated from it by a narrow strait on the south-east. The king of Śrī-Vijaya at this time was probably Śrī-Jayanāśa¹ who is known from a record dated 684 A.D.