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East and West — New Inscriptions from Funan, Zhenla and Dvāravatī

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This article presents a handful of early inscriptions recently discovered in Cambodia and Thailand, and discusses their implications for our undertstanding of the religious and sociopolitical landscape of “Funan”, “Zhenla”, and “Dvāravatī”. The epigraphical evidence presented here, moving back in time and from east to west, consists in: 1) a label and two stanzas inscribed in handsome seventh-century lettering (K. 1455) on the base of a standing statue of the Buddha from Angkor Borei, a site which occupied a pre-eminent position in one of the most important polities in early Southeast Asia, called Funan by Chinese sources; 2) a group of fragments found in Mueang Phaniat, Chanthaburi province, one of which mentions the seventh-century Khmer sovereign Īśānavarman I, seemingly as the then ruling king (K. 1563), adding support to the hypothesis of Zhenla’s extension into eastern Thailand during this period; and 3) an inscription with splendidly florid calligraphic lettering of a slightly earlier period that was discovered at Wat Phra Ngam in Nakhon Pathom, in central Thailand, and that mentions the city name Dvāravatī. Since that inscription (N.Th. 21) contains no discernible evidence of belonging to a Khmer polity, it has not been assigned a K. inventory number.
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Dominic Goodall, Nicolas Revire. East and West — New Inscriptions from Funan, Zhenla and Dvāravatī. Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient, 2021, 107 (2021), pp.257-301. ⟨10.2307/27164175⟩. ⟨halshs-04142364⟩
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