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

BACKGROUND TO THE SRI VIJAYA STORY
PART V (Conclusion)
Paul Wheatley, Impressions of the Malay Peninsula in Ancient Times
(Eastern University Press, Singapore, 1964}, pp. 264, plates; and O.W.
Wolters, The Fall of Sri Vijaya in Malay History (Oxford University
Press, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, 1970), pp. 274.
22. THE POST-SRI VIJAYA PERIOD (1260-1300 A.D.)
With the death of Chandrabanu in Ceylon about 1260, the Sri
Vijaya Empire, if I may call it by such a highfalutin name, came to an
end.
The histories of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra then took
separate courses.
The city-states sent embassies to the Chinese court,
which the Chinese still recorded as coming from San-fo-tsi; but complete
control of the Malacca Straits, based on Muara Takus (Malayu) in
Central Sumatra and Kedah on the west coast of the Peninsula, was no
more.
Into this vacuum stepped the Thai and the Javanese.
We have seen
m section 18 that about the beginning of the 13th century, Tao U-Thong,
king of Ayodbia, had already gone down the Peninsula to Bang Sa pan in
Prachuab Kirikhand Province and divided the Peninsula with Chao Phya
Sri Thammasokaraja of Nakorn Sri Tbammaraj.
Half a century later
Sri In tara tit, King of Sukhothai, went down to Nakorn and co-operated
with Chandrabanu in acquiring the image known as the Buddha Sihing
fron:i Ceylon (section 18). By the end of the century Ram Kambaeng,
Intaratit's youngest son who came to the throne of Sukhothai about 1279,
claimed sovereignty over Nakorn to "where the sea marks the limit".
Some people think that this extended as far as Singapore, while others
think that Ram Kambaeng never even got control of Nakorn. If anything,
they think, it was Ayodhia and not Sukhothai that controlled the south.
In any case, "to where the sea marks the limit'' means that whoever got
control of Nakorn also controlled the Twelve Naksat Cities, ranging from
Cbumporn in the north to Pahang in the south (see section 1 above).