| Abstract: |
The study of comparative civilizations, with focus on the culture of the Cham, a seafaring people of Sa Huynh origin (in Central Vietnam), has attracted much attention in field surveys. My examination of the Cham problem is based on studies which were initiated during the period of my affiliation with the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Srninakharinwirot University at the Prasarnmit Campus, under the impact of Ajarn Plubplung Kongchanas lecture on Champa at the Siam Society on July 16th, 1995, and a period of field research in Vietnam and Cambodia during 1996. It is probable that reform-based manifestations of the famed reign of Sasanian King Khosrow Anushirwan found firm roots in the legendary, and thus, a literary heritage of the Champans, who as a Malay-speaking people in Vietnam retained numerous concepts in their traditions together with other peoples of the peninsular regions of Southeast Asia, where traditions of fairness and justice are identifiable with the Malay sphere traditions regarding a legendary just prince in whose image, Pan-Asian movements evolved in Southeast Asia in order to pursue socio-economic reforms.
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