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Chams are basicly of Austronesian stock, just like Javanese, Malay, Tagalog and the rest of maritime Southeast Asian ethnics .

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Yes..., Chams are basicly of Austronesian stock, just like Javanese, Malay, Tagalog and the rest of maritime Southeast Asian ethnics .
Cham is considered as Java's ancient ally in 13th-15th century... In Trowulan, Majapahit, East Java, there is a Cham Princess tomb, the consort of Majapahit emperor.

Makam Putri Cempa (Tomb of Champa Princess)

In East Java there Candi pari, it is a temple peculiarly designed similar in Cham style...

 

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compare it with Cham temple

 

Yet.., previously the port towns of Champa such as Kauthara were ravaged by foreign raids. They called it came from Java, probably rever to Srivijaya-Sailendra raid.

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A stele dated 781 indicates that the Cham King Satyavarman regained power in the area of "Ha-Ra Bridge", and that he restored the devastated Po Nagar temple. From this inscription can be deduced that the area previously had come under temporary foreign dominion, and that foreign vandals had damaged the already existing temple. Other steles indicate that the temple had contained a mukhalinga decorated with jewelry and resembling an angel's head. Foreign robbers, perhaps from Java, "men living on food more horrible than cadavers, frightful, completely black and gaunt, dreadful and evil as death" had arrived in ships, had stolen the jewelry and had broken the linga. Though the king had chased the robbers out to sea, the treasure had been lost forever. The steles also indicate that the king restored the linga in 784.
This account really demonizing the Javan "pirates" as horrible as possible... The desacration and destruction of linga is tought as the act to symbolize one's domination upon other state, since erection (construction) of a linga often used as the ceremony to the establishment of a kingdom. The Java (Srivijaya-Sailendra) was a mighty naval forces then, and they raid and rob potential rival ports between China and India, just to ensure their domination on Southeast Asia maritime trade route...

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