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There was no continuous knowledge of Srivijaya even in Indonesian histories; its forgotten past has only in the last century been recreated by foreign scholars. No modern Indonesians, not even those of the Palembang area around which the kingdom was based, had heard of Srivijaya until the 1920s, when French scholar George Coedès published his discoveries in Dutch and Indonesian-language newspapers.[8] Coedès noted that the Chinese references to "Sanfoqi", previously read as "Sribhoja", and the inscriptions (what inscriptions)in Old Malay refer to the same empire.[9]

The historical records of Srivijaya were reconstructed from a number of stone inscriptions, most of them written in Old Malay, e.g., the Kedukan Bukit, Talang Tuwo, Telaga Batu and Kota Kapur inscriptions. Srivijaya has become a symbol of early Sumatran importance as a great empire to balance Java's Majapahit in the east. (hmmm) In the 20th century, both empires were referred to by nationalist intellectuals to argue for an Indonesian identity (word) Indonesian state prior to the Dutch colonial state.[8]

Srivijaya (and by extension Sumatra) had been known by different names to different peoples, e.g., The Chinese called it Sanfotsi or San Fo Qi (pinyin here?). Additionally, there was an even older kingdom of Kantoli that could be considered the predecessor of Srivijaya.[10][11] Sanskrit and Pali referred to it as Yavadesh and Javadeh, respectively.(need to insert civ name)[10] (Kantoli or srivijaya?) The Arabs called it Zabag and the Khmer called it Melayu.[10] (These various names contributed to the difficulty of discovering ..)This is another reason why the discovery of Srivijaya was so difficult.[10] While some of these names are strongly reminiscent of the name of Java, there is a distinct possibility that they may have referred to Sumatra instead.[12]

The first part, "sri", comes from Sanskrit and is an honorific place name, similar to the "Sri" in Sri Lanka. "Vijaya" means "victory." A similarly named empire in India called Vijayanagara once existed. Srivijaya can therefore also be written "Sri Vijaya".