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History
After Funan became subordinate to Chenla, some changes took place in the upper end of the peninsula and the lower Menam-Meklong delta. This region, with the adjacent Thaton-Martaban coast and the eastern part of the Sittang-Irrawaddy delta, had always been predominantly the Mon country - Rāmanyadesa. Mon inscriptions of the eighth century, possibly earlier, have been found at Lophburi (Lopburi). The inscription and image of the Buddha carved on the wall of a grotto near Rdjaburi are believed to be of the sixth-seventh century, with traces of both Mon and Khmer influence, and the Buddha is believed to belong to the Dvdravatl School of art; and the inhabitants of the Tenasserim region were and always had been predominantly Mon. It will be recalled that Fan Shih-man did not conquer Chin-lin (the Thaton-Martaban region, including apparently Tavoy), and this part of Rdmanyadesa seems to have remained free - at least of Funan. The upper part of the peninsula - under the names of Tun-hsiin and Lang-ya-hsiu - was a part of the empire of Funan. On the east, Lang-ya-hsiu probably extended to the boundary of Chenla (north of Chantabun), which was on the coast, for the Liang shu says that the east-west extension of Lang-ya-hsiu was one and a half times its north-south extension. Dvaravati was mentioned in the Chinese text written by a Buddhist pilgrim, Hsüan-tsang (Hsüan-chuang), who returned from north India in 629-645, and given the location of Dvaravati