There are still about 130,000 Chams in the south of Annam and Camboja. In the latter country they are all Mohammedans. In Annam some traces of Hinduism remain, such as mantras in broken Sanskrit and hereditary priests called Baśaih. Both religions have become unusually corrupt but are interesting as showing how beliefs which are radically distinct become distorted and combined in Eastern Asia[368].
[Footnote 329: Also spelt Campâ and Tchampa. It seems safer to use Ch for C in names which though of Indian origin are used outside India. The final _a_ though strictly speaking long is usually written without an accent. The following are the principal works which I have consulted about Champa.
(a) G. Maspéro, _Le Royaume de Champa_. Published in _T'oung Pao_, 1910-1912. Cited as Maspéro.
(b) A. Bergaigne, "Inscriptions Sanskrites de Champa" in _Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale_, tome XXVII. 1^re partie. 2^e fascicule, 1893, pp. 181-292. Cited as _Corpus_, II.
(c) H. Parmentier, _Inventaire descriptif des Monuments Ćams de l'Annam_. 1899.
(d) L. Finot, "La Religion des Chams," _B.E.F.E.O_, 1901, and _Notes d'Epigraphie_. "Les Inscriptions de Mi-son," _ib_. 1904. Numerous other papers by this author, Durand, Parmentier and others in the same periodical can be consulted with advantage.
(e) _Id., Notes d'Epigraphie Indo-Chinoise_, 1916.]
[Footnote 330: _Corpus_, II. p. 11, and Finot, _Notes d'Epig._ pp. 227 ff.]
[Footnote 331: See authorities quoted by Maspéro, _T'oung Pao_, 1910, p. 329.]
[Footnote 332: Finot in _B.E.F.E.O._ 1904, pp. 918 and 922.]
[Footnote 333: _Corpus_, II. _Stêle de Po Nagar_, pp. 252 ff. and _Stêle de Yang Tikuh_, p. 208, etc.]
[Footnote 334: The statements that they came from Java and were cannibals occur in different inscriptions and may conceivably refer to two bodies of invaders. But the dates are very near. Probably Java is not the island now so called. See the chapter on Camboja, sec. 2. The undoubted references in the inscriptions of Champa to the island of Java call it Yavadvîpa.]
[Footnote 336: See "La Chronique Royale," _B.E.F.E.O._ 1905, p. 377.]
[Footnote 337: _Corpus_, II. p. 259. Jinendra may be a name either of the Buddha or of a grammarian. The mention of the Kâśikâ vṛitti is important as showing that this work must be anterior to the ninth century. The Uttara Kalpa is quoted in the Tantras (see Bergaigne's note), but nothing is known of it.]