Dharmasraya

Who holds it

Name

Not known: a governor of the Malayu king, a village headman, or the king himself (not shown)

Title

Lord or headman of Dharmasraya

Since

not known

Born

not known

Family

not known

Confidence

low

Lord in 1200

Not known: a governor of the Malayu king, a village headman, or the king himself (not shown)

How things stand that morning

Possibly a toll station on the gold road; possibly a court. Not pinned.

Council

No headman, judge or council is named in any source.

Communities

Not recorded.

Fairs and markets

None known; trade follows the monsoon.

Militia

No source.

Walls and castle

No wall or citadel is known.

Trade and crafts

Gold dust bought from the Minangkabau washers; cloth, salt and iron in return.

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1286Amoghapasa statue set up at Padang Roco for the king of Bhumi Malayu.Depends on: Singhasari (founded 1222) and its expedition of 1275. Stopped by: No Singhasari.

Where the sources disagree

• The campaign board marks it 'contested' (right). The statue of 1286 and the Amoghapasa inscription of 1347 are later than the date and prove nothing for 1200.

Evidence: Thin: the first document naming it is of 1286, eighty-six years after the date.

"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.

Primary sources for Malayu

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
• The Leiden grants of Rajaraja I and Kulottunga I concerning the Srivijaya vihara at Nagapattinam, The Chola chancery (Rajaraja I, Rajendra I, Kulottunga I) (the Larger plates about 1005 to 1014 (completed under Rajendra I); the Smaller plates 1090). Background documents for the relations between the Cholas and the Malay world. Read online
• The Grahi (Chaiya) Buddha inscription and the Tambralinga records, Various (the officers of Grahi and the kings of Tambralinga), edited by George Coedes (the Chaiya bronze Buddha inscription 1183; the Nakhon Si Thammarat records 13th century; edited 1929, revised 1961). The peninsula in 1200 has one near-contemporary dated text: the Old Khmer inscription on the base of a bronze Buddha from Wat Hua Wiang at Chaiya, dated 1183, which records the image's casting by order of the mahasenapati Galanai, governor of Grahi, under the king Srimat Trailokyaraja Maulibhusanavarmadeva, a name that is argued to be either a Malayu (Srivijaya) overlord or a local king.
• A Description of the Foreign Peoples (Records of Foreign Nations), Zhao Rukuo (Zhao Rugua) (1225 at Quanzhou). The best single text for the island world around 1200, written by the superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou from merchants' reports a generation after the date. Read online
• Notes in Answer to Questions about the Lands beyond the Passes, Zhou Qufei (周去非) (1178, after service in Guangxi). A Guangxi official's notes, written twenty years before 1200, on the south-western frontier of the Song and the countries beyond. Read online
• The Description of the Country, called the Nagarakretagama, Mpu Prapanca (1365 at the Majapahit court). A Majapahit court poem of 1365 listed here only for its retrospect. Read online