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The Indianiazation of Southeast Asia








                       The founding of Indian kingdoms on


                     mainland  or insular Southeast Asia:





                          The                                         •“…preserved the


        expansion of an organized                                    essentials of their

    culture that was founded upon                                    individual cultures

            the Indian concept of

        royalty, characterized by                                       [indigenous] and
                                                                   developed them, each
     Hinduist or Buddhist cults, and

           expressed in Sanskrit                                    according to its own

           language (Coedes 1968)                               genius.”  (Coedes 1968: 34)
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