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A brahmin arrived by ship in the Mekong delta. The ruler who came out to meet him commanded a fleet, was a woman, and proposed the marriage.
Cambodia's founding story is a marriage between a foreigner and a local queen, and it is still performed at Cambodian weddings.
Funan is the name Chinese records give to the first great state of mainland Southeast Asia.
It flourished from around the first century CE, in the Mekong delta.
A sea power, sitting on the route between India and China. With ports that handled the traffic of both.
Its own name for itself is lost. Funan is a Chinese transcription.
We know about it partly because of an embassy.
In the third century the Chinese court sent envoys. Kang Tai and Zhu Ying. To find out what was there.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.