its significance attached to the personal achievement of each particular man of prowess and his connections with his clients in particular generations.It by no means signified the geographical size of early Southeast Asian polities, on the contrary, it reflected the networks of loyalties between the ruler and the ruled, and among rulers, all of whom aspired to be the highest lord of the area over which they claimed sovereignty.Mandala history is also a record of certain happenings inside the region.It projected into history and elaborated upon some widespread culture trails inherited from prehistory: cognatic systems of kinship, an indifference towards lineage descent, and therefore the significance attached to personal achievement in a particular period of time.