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70 In 667-8 it is asserted the Kings of the five Indies all sent to offer homage ; and this homage was repeated in 672 and 692. These kings are named in the Chinese Annals — (i) the King of Eastern India, named Molopama ; (2) the King of Western India, called Shiloyito ; (3) the King of Southern India, called Chilukhipalo ; (4) the King of Northern India, called Nana ; (5) the King of Central India, called Timosina^. In 670 King Datopiatissa of Ceylon sent a memorial to the Emperor with a present of native productions. Another Ceylonese embassy came in 711^. 46. In 713 an embassy came to the Emperor Hien Tsung from Chentolopiti (Chandrapida), King of Kashmir, acknowledging allegiance, and some years later a patent of investiture was granted to this prince. A successor and brother called Mutopi [Muktopida) also offered homage and requested the Emperor to send troops into Kashmir, offering to quarter them on the banks of the Lake Maha- padma in the centre of that valley. Tribute continued to be paid regularly by Kashmir for some time. The pressure of the rising power of Tibet probably induced this state to seek Chinese protection^. Between 713 and 731 repeated missions are reported from the different kingdoms of India, one of which begged aid against the Arabs and the Tibetans, and requested the as I can discover, says nothing as to this Chinese invasion of India, or the usurper Alanashun. Nor is the chronology consistent with his (from Hiuen Tsang), which continues ^iladitya's reign to 650 ; whilst the account followed in the text makes him already dead in 646. The Emperor T'ai Tsung died in 650. 1 Chine Ancienne, p. 301. 2 Tennent, i, p. 597. [The King of Ceylon in 670 was Hat- thadatha or Dathopatissa II (664-673).] ^ Remusat, u.s., p. 106; Chin. Anc, 311; Reinaud in Mem. de I'Acad., xvii, p. 190. There is a King Chandrapida in the Kashmir Annals, but he is killed in 691. The king reigning 695-732 was Laladitya, a great conqueror. He seems to have had a brother Muktopida (see Lassen, iii, 993, 997).