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

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geographers, rather than a local ruler of obscure origin who had
but recently shaken off his allegiance to his suzerain of Sri Vijaya,
as Candrabhanu is generally held to have been by historians."
Chapter V of Paranavitan's book, called Candrabhanu and Magha,
deals with the evidence on Chandrabanu as it was known when be wrote.
The second half of the chapter puts forward philological proofs that
Magha, the Kalinga king of Ceylon (also known as S. Kalinga
Vijayababu), was a king from the Malay Peninsula. After he had
written his book, he was able to decipher more evidence, and this
evidence is expounded shortly in the Preface to his book. In short,
Magha was the father of Chandrabanu. The following is from pages vi
and vii of his book:
"It is due to the reason that the Culawamsa does not enlighten
us with regard to the origin of Candrabhanu, that the close
relations which Ceylon bad with Sri Vijaya have remained
unrecognized for so long. In a document called the Magharajavrttanta,
which Parakramababu VI caused to be indited in between
the lines of the original inscriptions on several stones, it is stated
that Magha came from Suvarnnapura to the Pundra country
(Malabar) and married the daughter, named Pancandi (Pancali),
of the king of that country. Candrabhanu was the son of this
Malayalee princess; following the matrilineal system of descent,
he is referred to as of the Pancandawamsa. Magha, it is said in
this document, captured Polonnaru with the help of forces supplied
by his father-in-law, the Pundra king. In the course of his reign,
be led an expedition to Tambralinga, and established his son
Candrabhanu in independent authority over that territory. Later,
he went to Suvarnnapura and had Candrabhanu installed as the
Maharaja."
Paranavitana also has some new evidence on Cbandrabanu's
inscription of Tambralinga. He thought, following Coedes, that it came
from Jaiya (Cbaiya), whereas of course Nakorn was its place ofprovenence.
The inscription contains four lines of verse followed by some prose
(translated into English by Sastri from the French of Coedes.) On pages
vii and viii of his Preface, Paranavitana gives two versions of tbe quatrain