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It can no longer be ascertained with certainty whether these centres were founded and settled by Indian colonists, or whether these married into indigenous families who already held a certain amount of power (for the immigrants did not bring any womenfolk with them).

Nor is it clear how the change to the new culture took place. It is possible that princes emigrated front India to more easterly regions when the Gupta Empire, which held sway over large part of India, expanded greatly between the 3rd and 6th centuries A.D.

Brahman and Buddhist priest may have come with these princes and would naturally have been the most loyal advocates and apostles of tile superior Indian culture. But it is also conceivable that native potentates who had already attained a certain amount of power came into contact with Indian culture, and thought it advisable to ICL themselves be consecrated by Brahman priests. Thus the ground would have been prepared for a new centre of culture.

However this may be; the fact remains thatt the development of Indian Culture (and here we are concerned only with Indonesia) was bound tip with the changing fortunes of the most powerful indigenous princely dynasties.

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