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

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Before the publication of these two inscriptions, there were some
highly controversial Indian and Chinese records, such as the inscriptions
of Kulottunga I of Cola, who appeared as Ti-hua-ka-lo in the Chinese
records; and he was said to have been high Chief of San-fo-tsi (Sri
Vijaya) as well as King of Chulien (Cola). This evidence will not fit
the two Ceylonese inscriptions and make sense unless Paranavitana's
sources are used as well. Without them, the histories of Sri Vijaya and
Sri Lanka have to be revised anyway; but with them, the two stories
can be integrated into a combined history of Sri Vijaya and Sri Lanka
in the same way the stories of Normandy France and Norman England
in the same period comprise one history. I donot know about historians
of Ceylon, because as far as I can see writing the histories of India and
Ceylon has now become a closed field of endevour for Western scholars;
but historians of Southeast Asia should certainly be grateful to the
memory of Professor Paranavitana for what be bas already contributed
towards a far, far better History of Sri Vijaya than what Professor Coedes
produced over fifty years ago.
There will be a Part V to this paper, but it will have to be delayed
somewhat. The story, from Chandrabanu's second invasion of Ceylon
in about 1260 to the arrival of the Portugese at Malacca in 1511, covers
two and a half centuries of the post-Sri Vijaya or pre-European period
in the history of the Peninsula and Sumatra.
M.C. Chaud Chirayu Rajani
Chiangmai University