Includes index.

1. Bauddha brahmins in Bali -- 2. A new look at Sasanavamsa -- 3. The dewatau sotapan: a Mon prototype of the 37 nats -- History, historical sources -- 4. Tambralinga -- 5. The Malay founder of medieval Malaca -- 6. Malay history from Chinese sources -- 7. Banten and the Dutch in 1619: six early "pasar Malay" letters -- 8. North-western Cambodia in the seventh century -- 9. Some sanskrit inscriptions of Arakan -- 10. The Kyaikmaraw inscriptions -- 11. The 32 myos in the medieval Mon kingdom -- 12. Collaborateur versus Abstentioniste (Tuong versus Tri): political polemic in poetic dialogue during the French acquisition of southern Viet-Nam -- Literature and Arts -- 13. The story of Sudhana and Manohara: an analysis of the texts and the Borobudur reliefs -- 14. Further light on Sir Richard Winstedt's undescribed Malay version of the Ramayana -- 15. Three old Achehnese manuscripts -- 16. The date of the SOAS manuscript of the Sjair perang Mengkasar -- 17. The song of the three Mons -- 18. Three immortal Burmese songs -- 19. Country life in Burmese literature -- 20. Mahorasop in a Thai Manora manuscript -- 21. New evidence on Thai shadow-play invocations -- Historical linguistics -- 22. A Chinese vocabulary of Malacca Malay words -- 23. A Chinese vocabulary of Cham words and phrases -- 24. Tangut or Proto-Burman -- 25. Three Mon-Khmer word families -- 26. Achinese and mainland Austronesian -- 27. The structure of the word in Old Khmer.

With particular emphasis on history, religion, literature and arts, this collection provides a multifaceted and representative picture of the classical civilizations of South-East Asia which will be of interest for comparative and cross-disciplinary studies in this field, as well as providing a number of historical and literary documents and translations of great scholarly value.