Sri Vijaya, which is Malay for Shining Victory. Sri means "shining" or "radiant" and vijaya means "victory" or "excellence".
Sri Vijaya was an empire that based its power on the island of Sumatra which influenced much of the Malay Archipelago. Records of its beginning are scarce while estimations range from the 3rd to 5th centuries CE. The empire's political control was centered around Sumatra, and controlled local rajas in Java, Sulawesi, Borneo and parts of southern-central Philippines. Sri Vijaya was a loose-based naval empire; not engaging in massive military conflict, but engaging control through economic trade.
In the world of commerce, Srivijaya rapidly rose to be a far-flung empire controlling the two passages between India and China, namely the Sunda Strait from Palembang and the Malacca straits from Kedah. Arab accounts state that the empire of the maharaja was so vast that in two years the swiftest vessel could not travel round all its islands, which produced camphor, aloes, cloves, sandal-wood, nutmegs, cardamom and crubebs, ivory, gold and tin, making the maharaja as rich as any king in the Indies.
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