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

324 llEVIEW ARTICLE
Two Ceylonese inscriptions recently published i~ 1973 (Epigraphia
Zeylanica Vol. VI, part 1), give two or three names that change the
histories of Sri Vijaya and Sri Lanka. The inscriptions are No. 3
Panduvasnuvara Pillar Inscription of the Reign of Udaya II, dated 893,
pp. 12-20, which mentions a Sangha Radun, who was a princess of
Palambanpura Suvanvaraya (Palembang the Harbour of Gold) in the land
of Yavaju Kalingubimi (Javadvipa-Kalinga); and No. 8 Madirigiri Slab
Inscription of Mahinda VI, dated circa 1060, pp. 39-58, in which Maharaja
Samara was said to have driven away the Colas that remained spread
over the entire Island of Lanka. Both inscriptions were edited by
Paranavitana, but they were not from his interlinear sources. I have
already dealt with these inscriptions in Parts lii and IV of this paper,
but it would be as well to have a very short summary.
1. The history of Ceylon in this period, based mainly on the
chronicular Culawamsa, gives sole credit for driving out the Colas to
Vijayabahu I. This is contrary to the contemporary epigraphic evidence
cited above.
2. The theory of a Sri Vijaya Empire based on Palembang can no
longer hold water. If Palembang was Palambanpura, it could not have
bee1:1 Sri Vijaya at the same time. Sri Vijaya was Chaiya, where an
inscription with that name has been found.
3. The historians of Sri Lanka have considered that all mentions
of Kaiinga in their chronicles to have been located in India, but now
that there is epigraphic evidence that there was a Kalinga in Southeast
Asia