Canasapura

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(Śri) Cānāśapura or Śri Canāśa ( Thai ศรี จ นา ศะ , RTGS Si Chanasa ) was probably a kingdom that existed around the 7th to 9th centuries . It is localized in the upper valley of the Mae Nam Mun (Mun River) , in today's Isan , the northeast region of Thailand .

An inscription in Sanskrit and Khmer language from the excavated city of Mueang Sema in the province of Nakhon Ratchasima dates from the 7th century and tells of a gift of water buffalo , cattle and slaves of both sexes by a king of Sri Canasapura .

An inscription in Sanskrit and Khmer found in Ayutthaya in 1939 , dated to the year 937 AD , mentions a King Bhagadatta of Sri Canasapura and his descendants belonging to the same family:

  • Sundara Para Drama
  • Sundaravarman
  • Narapatisimhavarman
  • Mangalavarman (the author of the inscription)

Cānāśapura probably existed parallel to the Dvaravati culture of the Mon in what is now central Thailand. According to the inscriptions written in Khmer by Bo Ika and Sri Canasa, it must have been on the periphery of the area of ​​influence of Dvaravati, a network of city-states in the Chao Phraya plain. According to these texts, both Hinduism and Buddhism are said to have been practiced in the community. The hypothesis of the historian Dhida Saraya ( ธิดา สาระ ยา ) is based on this information that Cānāśapura could be identical to the Si Thep archaeological site in Phetchabun Province . Both Hindu and Buddhist sites have been found there. However, there is no further evidence for this theory. The art historian Robert L. Brown, who specializes in India and Southeast Asia, and the historian and anthropologist Srisaksa Vallibhotama, on the other hand, take the position that Mueang Sema itself is an important city, if not the capital of Canāśa.

literature

  • Charles Higham : The Civilization of Angkor . 2004.
  • Charles Higham: Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations . New York: Facts on File, New York 2004, ISBN 0-8160-4640-9 . Entry "Canasapura", p. 63.
  • Robert L. Brown: The Dvāravatī Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of South East Asia. Brill, Leiden 1996, ISBN 90-04-10435-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Higham: Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations . 2004, p. 63.
  2. ↑ Thewa Sathan ( เทวสถาน ) page of the "History of Ayutthaya" (in English)
  3. ↑ Dhida Saraya: (Sri) Dvaravati. The Initial Phase of Siam's History. Muang Boran Publishing, Bangkok 1999. Quoted from Dougald JW O'Reilly: Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia. AltaMira Press, Lanham MD / Plymouth 2007, p. 82.
  4. ^ O'Reilly: Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia. 2007, p. 82.
  5. ^ Brown: The Dvāravatī Wheels of the Law. 1996, pp. 25, 29.