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 FunanHusband of the naga-princess foundress Soma (Neang Neak); the founding couple of Funan, the dynasty passing matrilineally through her. Soma already names her consort Kaundinya / Preah Thong in her prose.Paul Pelliot, Le Fou-nan, BEFEO 3 (1903); Coedes, The Indianized States of Southeast Asia (1968): the brahmin Kaundinya weds the naga-princess Soma to found Funan (secondary)

Sources

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