furth to the south pioneering french schoolars had also revealed the ruined towere of the cham peoples whose alien origins seems more secure thir language belonged to the austronesian family closely linked to the languages of northern borneo and perhaps sumatra. their rulers at least were heavily indianzod built temples dcdicated to shiva used sanskrit for their inscriptions and gave themseles indian name such as buhadravarman rudravarman and indravarman likewise their cities were called simhapura or vijaya thir polities amaravati kauthara and paduranga