Dear Arlo,

On page 83 of the article, the name of the king is Śrī Māra. Has not somebody already noted the connection between this name and the name Māṟaṉ of Tamil Pāṇṭiya dynasty? (I am unable to recall the reference.) A Pāṇṭiya king Muṭa-t-Tiru Māṟaṉ has authored two Classical Tamil poems. The Sanskrit form of Tiru Māṟaṉ will be Śrī Māra. The name of a a later Pāṇṭiya king was Śrī Māra Śrīvallabhaṉ. 

According to R. C. Majumdar (Study of Sanskrit in South-East Asia, p. 25), a Sanskrit inscription was discovered in a place called Vat Luong Kau dated to be of the second half of 5th century AD. "It begins with an invocation to Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva and then refers to the great king (maharājādhirāja) ŚrI Devānīka and compares him with Yudhiṣṭhira, Indra, DhanaJjaya, Indradyumna, Śibi, Mahāpuruṣa, Kanakapāṇḍya(?), the great Ocean and Meru."

Has the possible Pāṇṭiya connection to Southeast Asia been explored by scholars after K. K. Sarkar?

Thanks

Regards,

Palaniappan

 

On Jun 27, 2012, at 1:37 AM, Arlo Griffiths wrote:

Thank you very much, Benjamin!

I forward the pdf file which may be of interest to some others on the list, and which is mercifully light-weight.

Best wishes,

Arlo

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From: fleming_b4@hotmail.com
To: arlogriffiths@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [INDOLOGY] Sino-Indian Studies 5 (1956)
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:00:46 -0400

Dear Arlo,

I am not sure if you received a copy of this article, but I ordered a copy and it just arrived.

Best,

Benjamin

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Benjamin Fleming, 

Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Religious Studies; 

Cataloger, Sanskrit Manuscripts, Rare Book & Manuscript Library;
University of Pennsylvania 249 S. 36th Street, 
201 Claudia Cohen Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104 U.S.A. 
Telephone - 215-900-5744
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~bfleming 

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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:46:23 +0000
From: arlogriffiths@HOTMAIL.COM
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Sino-Indian Studies 5 (1956)
To: INDOLOGY@liverpool.ac.uk

Dear colleagues,

If any one has access to the following article, and a means of producing a scan, I shall be a grateful recipient:

Sarkar, Kalyan Kumar, 1956, "The earliest inscription of Indochina", Sino-Indian Studies, 5(2), p. 77-87. 

Thank you.

Arlo Griffiths
EFEO/Jakarta

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