Javaka

Javaka

Reference to the Sri Lankan materials, king Chandrabhanu Sridhamaraja is one of Javakan kings from Tambralinga kingdom, one the kingdoms in the prehistory period of Nusantara, who had invaded Sri Lankan in 1247. However the Javaka has not occurred here for the first time. Many scholars identify Srivijaya with the Arabic Zabaj, which most scholars agree in equating with Javaka (in Pali texts) that appear in Indian sources.
The naval force of a Maharaja of Zabaj had ever played a major role in a legend recorded by an Arabic merchant name Sulaimaan in 851, and published by the historian Masoudi in his 947 book "Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems." He described the story of one silly Khmer king who defied the power of the Maharaja of Zabaj. Eventually how the end of the story was, he wrote down the Legend of the Maharaja of Zabaj.