: The mystery of an ancient Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Malay Peninsula #IndiaNEWS Few traces exist in contemporary Malaysia of its Hindu and Buddhist past. Unlike its fellow Muslim-majority neighbour

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The mystery of an ancient Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Malay Peninsula #IndiaNEWS
Few traces exist in contemporary Malaysia of its Hindu and Buddhist past. Unlike its fellow Muslim-majority neighbour Indonesia, which is home to some of the grandest structures of Indic religions such as the Borobudur and Prambhanan temples, peninsular Malaysia has modest archaeological remains of great kingdoms of yore. But there is still a place where that past can be found: literature. The Kedah Annals, a Malay literary work that gives a romantic account of the history of the Malay kingdom of Kedah, mentions the Langkasuka Hindu-Buddhist kingdom which is believed to have been founded between the first and third century.“Langkasuka, according to the Kedah Annals, was the name by which the ancient settlement by the Kedah Peak in Kedah was known,�? WA Linehan, an English civil servant and scholar, wrote in the April 1948 edition of the Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Kedah at that time was home to settlements of traders from India. Historians suggest the kingdom was located near Pattani, which is now in southern Thailand, and at its peak, it likely covered a vast area in modern-day Malaysia and Thailand.The name Langkasuka is, without doubt, Sanskrit in origin and means “blissful resplendent land�?. One theory suggests the kingdom was originally...Read more

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