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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
During 1937–38, with my wife's tireless co-operation, I archæologically explored the Malay States of Kedah, Perak, and Johore, with the primary object of obtaining data on the spread of Indian civilization in South-East Asia. The full report, including that of the systematic excavation of many sites of the “Hindu period” in Kedah, was published in JRASMB, vol. xviii, part 1, 1940, with 89 plates and 15 figures. Subsequently we excavated one or two other sites in Kedah and also explored Province Wellesley. The report of this supplementary work, delayed by the war, will shortly appear in JRASMB. The object of the present paper is to give a summary of our main Malayan results in the sphere of cultural history, as well as to point out some wider implications in conjunction with my earlier excavations in Siam, which these Malayan investigations do much to complete and illuminate.
page 143 note 1 “The Exploration of Śri Deva” in Indian Art and Letters, vol. x, No. 2.
page 144 note 1 MASI, No. 16.
page 144 note 2 ASIAR, 1908–9, pp. 5–16.
page 144 note 3 Indian Art and Letters, vol. ix, No. 1, plate iv. Also plate 4 (left) of the present article which shows the central figure.
page 144 note 4 1 BEFEO, vol. xl, 1940, p. 331, note 2.
page 145 note 1 See Ceylon Journal of Science, Section G, vol. ii, pt. i, p. 13. Bronze miniatures of the animals of the quarters were found in the corner cavities of a reliquary at Pabalu Dagaba, Pollonaruwa (ABASC,1938, plate 4).
page 146 note 1 The Bronzes of Nalanda, 1933, p. 74.
page 146 note 2 2 MASI, No. 55.
page 147 note 1 Mélanges Linossier, plate x.
page 147 note 2 Indian Art and Letters, vol. ix, No. 1, plate ii.
page 147 note 3 Indian Art and Letters, vol. x, No. 2, plate iii.
page 147 note 4 Indian Art and Letters, vol. xi, No. 2, plate i.
page 147 note 5 Sketches of similar figures in high relief at Suphan were made by Lajonquière (BCAI, 1909, figs. 19 and 20.)
page 148 note 1 For examples, see illustrations in Ray's, Nihar-RanjanBrahmanical Gods in Burma, Calcutta, 1932Google Scholar.
page 148 note 2 Indian Art and Letters, vol. ix, No. 1, plates vii and viii.
page 148 note 3 JRASMB, vol. xviii, part 1, plates 69 and 70.
page 148 note 4 Krom, Inleiding, vol. 2, page 425.
page 148 note 5 Schnitger, F. M., Archaeology of Hindoo Sumatra, 1937, especially plates xvii, xxxi, and xxxiiGoogle Scholar.
