Vietnam: Stele found at Tháp Mười in Dong Thap Province. The text is in Sanskrit, has been dated to the mid-5th century CE, and records a donation by Prince Gunavarman in honour of Vishnu. Funan, Phù Nam in Vietnamese, Fúnán in pinyin, was the Chinese name for an ancient kingdom located around the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam. The name is found in Chinese historical texts describing the kingdom, and its most extensive descriptions are largely based on the report of two Chinese diplomats representing the Wu Kingdom of Nanjing who sojourned in Funan in the mid-3rd century CE.

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