[from Sanskrit puri: ‘sacred city’]. The capital of the kingdom of Funan, in the southern part of the Indochinese Peninsula, for some time towards the end of this kingdom in the 6th century. It appears as Na-fu-na in Chinese chronicles, which can be identified with Naravaranagara, and is now a rich archaeological site in Cambodia, south of Phnom Penh near the border with Vietnam. These is much famous statuary in stone, attributable mainly to king Rudravarman; no building of this site and period has as yet been studied.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied