The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. LXIV, Part 1-2, 1976 - Khamkoo

290 REVIEW ARTICLE
"The monarch forced the people to adopt false views and
brought confusion into the four unmixed castes. Villages and
fields, houses and gardens, slaves, cattle, buffaloes and whatever
else belonged to the Sibalas he had delivered to the Keralas. The
viharas, the parivenas and many sanctuaries be made over
to one or the other of his warriors as dwelling. The treasures
which belonged to the Buddha and were the property of the holy
Order he seized and thus committed a number of sins in order to
go to hell. In this fashion, committing deeds of violence, the Ruler
Magha held sway in Lanka for twenty-one years."
The story of Magha to 1236 when he was driven from Polonnaruva
bas already been told and there is no need to repeat it. We will now
go to the Malay Peninsula and look at the evidence from that side.
18. PHYA SRI THAMMASOKARAJA AND CHANDRABANU
Some time in the century be ween about 1070 A.D. when Kulottunga
I and Vijayabahu I came to the thrones of Chola India and Ceylon
respectively, and 1167, there was a change of dynasties in the Sri Vijaya
country. As the Thai understand it, the new dynasty was the
Padmawamsa (the Lotus Line). Alternatively it might have been the
Pancandawamsa (Line of Pancandi or Pancali ). The two names appear
only once, in the inscription set up by Chandrabanu at Nakorn Sri
Thammaraj in 1230. According to Paranavitana, Pancandi was Chandrabanu's
mother, and in that case the Pancandawamsa started and
ended with Cbandrabanu (his sons and grandsons not being relevant to
the Sri Vijaya story in the Malay Peninsula), whereas the Padmawamsa
(as opposed to the Sailendrawamsa) might have started when Suryanarayana
became Maharaja, but the evidence is rather meagre. The Lotus
Line of course might merely mean that the dynasty was Buddhist
because the Lotus is one of the symbols of the Lord. In this case the
Buddhist Sailendras would have been of the Lotus Line too. I will use
both names and start with the safe and neutral date of 1156 for this
clilange of dynasties when Se-li-ma-ha-la-cha of San-fo-tsi (Sri Maharaja
of Sri Vijaya) sent an embassy to China. This is only a decade before
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