Brahmin Founder-King of Funan

Khmer/Funanese legendary founder, the brahmin consort named in the prose of the existing khmer_soma entry (Kaundinya / Preah Thong). Classed mortal (a legendary foreign brahmin-king). The spouse edge is declared once here and auto-reciprocates; the existing khmer_soma needs the reciprocal spouse edge added.

Domains

• queenship and rule
• ancestry of a people

Powers

• wed the naga princess and found the matriline of Funan

Relations

• spouse: Naga Princess Queen of Funan

Sources

• Paul Pelliot, Le Fou-nan, Bulletin de l Ecole francaise d Extreme-Orient, vol. 3 (1903)
• George Coedes, The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, University of Hawaii Press (1968); Kaundinya I, en.wikipedia, accessed June 2026