My Khmer Root

Arriving at នគរចម្ប៉ា Champa Kingdom The 1st Century ad After months of sailing, Prince Kumeru arrived in the Champa Kingdom. Prince commanded his crew to landing in this Kingdom and took a ship's boat with only 10 men and some gifts from India with him to go paying his respect to the King of Champa and told the King about his story and reason looking for a place to live. Prince asked King of Champa for a permit to stay in the land. The Cham King agreed and gave a land to Prince so Prince can build houses making his people to live in. Two years later, Prince Kumeru became very popular in this Kingdom because of his teaching skill to Cham people such as building school, temple, boat, house, making clothes, writing system, Indian customs etc...the Cham people loved Prince Kumeru very much making the Cham King very jealous and very worry thinking that one day Prince Kumeru could revolt against him. So one night, the Cham King ordered his army to kill Prince and all his men, but Prince...

The arrival of a Great Hindu Indian Prince Kumeru ( កុមេរុ ) The 1st century ad Prince Kumeru was in a Brahman  Indian outfit with his crew members about 400 men were in exile travelling by a big ship from the south of India to a nowhere in the Ocean. According to one of the beautiful Khmer fairy tales stories Preah Thong & Neang Neak (Prince Kumeru & Nagi Princess);  Prince Kumeru was a Hindu Great Warrior, an excellent skill in Archery, a Great Sailor and became a Great Protector of his Indrapat Kingdom at the age of 16 years old but unfortunately Prince was forced to leave his native Kingdom by his own father because of miscommunication leading to misunderstanding between father and son. Prince Kumeru always protected the women rights from the men abusing because in that time women in India had not much freedom and his protection for the women rights was against his father will.  The big misunderstanding one was when his youngest brother was crowned t...

នគរគោកធ្លក (Kok Tlok Kingdom)  Since the birth of human race to the 1st century AD    Pre-Phnom Kingdom (Funan)  នគរ   ភ្នំ People of Kok Tlok (Kok means dry land and Thlok is a name of a big large tree) was a  native to Phnom Kingdom (Funan recorded by Chinese) they lived in a land surrounding with water mixing from river and sea. They claimed that they were the descendants of Naga people. Kok Tlok was ruled by Princess Nagi. Men and women wore the animal skins on their below bodies, but nothing on top of their bodies. Women chose men to get married with, Husbands must come to live in their wives’ parent houses. Wives were the men of the houses, husbands had no objection when wives decided what to do, women were the leadership, women controlled the business as we can see today in every public market in the current Kampuchea (Cambodia). Women were Mé ( មេ ), Men were Ba ( បា ). Children called their mother Mé ( មេ ) and called their...