Funan

Funan (, also ; ; , ; ) was a loose network of ancient Indianized states (Mandala) located in Mainland Southeast Asia, covering parts of present-day Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, that existed from the 1st to 7th century CE. The name is found in Chinese historical texts describing the kingdom which indicate it to be an endonym the people of Funan gave to their polity, and it is perhaps a Chinese transcription of pnom, “mountain”. Funan is generally considered as the first known kingdom in Southeast Asia. It was located to the southwest of Linyi (the Chinese designation for the historical regi

archaeological site in An Giang Province, Vietnam

''' (, ; Pali: ', ; ) is a toponym that appears in many ancient Indian literary sources and Buddhist texts such as the Mahavamsa, some of the Jataka tales, the Milinda Panha and the Ramayana.

ancient Funan sites

Vyadhapura (, Sanskrit: व्याधपूर Vyādhapūra) was an ancient city of the Funan civilization, likely in what is now Ba Phnum District in the province of Prey Veng, Cambodia.

district of Cambodia

thumb|Royal dance orchestra, Phnom Penh, c. 1907. Instruments from the left: front row: samphor drum, [[roneat dek (metallophone), roneat ek (bamboo xylophone), roneat thung (bamboo xylophone), sralai reed pipe, skor thom drums, other drums. Back row from the left: sralai, kong von thom, kong von toch.]] The Pinpeat (, ) is the largest Khmer traditional musical ensemble. It has performed the ceremonial music of the royal courts and temples of Cambodia since ancient times. The orchestra consists of approximately nine or ten instruments, mainly wind and percussion (including several varieties of

thumb|Funan|Funan-era ruins of Nam Linh Son, [[Óc Eo, Vietnam. Óc Eo has been identified multiple times by scholars as the location of Cattigara]] Cattigara is the name of a major port city located on the Magnus Sinus described by various ancient sources. Some modern scholars have linked Cattigara to the archaeological site of Óc Eo in present-day Vietnam.

a prosperity goddess worshiped in the Mekong Delta region