The Dvaravati Civilication
The basis of a Buddhist civilization in Southeast Asia was laid between the sixth and ninth centuries. During that period, a distinctive culture complex named Dvaravati, with Buddhism as its religion, developed in central and northeastern Thailand and was associated with the Mon people. Little is known of its history or its geographical extent. Many of its inscriptions, however, are in the Mon language; and it is supposed that Dvaravati arose late in the sixth century, more as a civilization than as an empire, to take advantage of the overland trade between the Gulf of Martaban and the Gulf of Thailand. Characteristically, sites are clustered most densely, and date furthest back in time, along the fringes of the Thailand Central Plain. Those to the west are particularly well-known, and it is there that coins bearing the inscription “Lord of Dvaravati” have been found, the only local evidence of the name of that state.
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