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Srivijaya, Sriwijaya, Shri Bhoja, Sri Boja or Shri Vijaya ( 200s - 1300s Page 171. Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula. Paul Michel Munoz.) was an ancient Malay kingdom on the island of Sumatra which influenced much of the Malay Archipelago . Records of its beginning are scarce while estimations range from the AD 3rd to 5th centuries. The kingdom ceased to exist around 1400. In Sanskrit , ''sri'' means 'shining' or 'radiant' and ''vijaya'' means victory or excellence. After it fell it was largely forgotten, and Europeans had never really learned of it so never considered that a large united kingdom could have been present in South-east Asia. The existence of Srivijaya was only formally suspected in 1918 when French historian George Coedès of École Française D'Extrême-Orient postulated the existence of the empire.Page 117. Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula. Paul Michel Munoz. Around 1992 and 1993, Pierre-Yves Manguin proved that the center of Srivijaya was along the Musi River in between Bukit Seguntang and Sabokingking (situated in what is now the province of South Sumatra , Indonesia).Page 117. Early Kingdoms of the Indonesian Archipelago and the Malay Peninsula. Paul Michel Munoz. HISTORIOGRAPHY AND LEGACY There is no continous knowledge of Srivijaya in Indonesian histories, its forgotten past has been recreated by foreign scholars. No modern Indonesians, including those of the Palembang area around which the kingdom was based, had heard of Srivijaya until the 1920s, when French scholar, George Coedès , published his discoveries and interpretations in Dutch and Indonesian-language newspapers.1 Coedès noticed that the Chinese references to "Sanfoqi" previously read as "Sribhoja", and the inscriptions in Old Malay refer to the same empire. Srivijaya became a symbol of early Sumatran greatness, and a great empire to balance Java's Majapahit in the east. Both empires were used by nationalist intellectuals to support an Indonesian identity within and Indonesian state prior to the Dutch Colonial State . FORMATION AND GROWTH |
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