Editing Champa (section)

===Sources===

The [[historiography]] of Champa relies upon four types of sources:<ref>Vickery, "Champa Revised", pp. 4 ff.</ref>
* Physical remains, including ruins as well as stone sculptures;
* Inscriptions in Cham, [[Sanskrit]], and [[Arabic script|Arabic]] ([[Kufic]]) on [[stele]]s and other stone surfaces;
* Chinese and Vietnamese annals, diplomatic reports, and other literature such as those provided by [[Jia Dan]];{{sfn|Higham|2014|p=319}}
* Historiography of modern [[Cham people]].

Approximately four hundred Champa inscriptions have been found. Around 250 of them were deciphered and studied throughout the last century. Many Cham inscriptions were destroyed by American bombing during the [[Vietnam War]]. Currently, the Project ''Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campā'' launched by [[École française d'Extrême-Orient|French School of Asian Studies]] (EFEO) partnering with the Institute for Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) of [[New York University]] is tasked for cataloging, sustaining and preserving ancient Cham inscriptions into an online index library and publications of scholarship's epigraphical studies into English, French, and Vietnamese.

The Cham have their written records in form of paper book, known as the ''[[Sakkarai dak rai patao]]'', was a 5227-pages collection of Cham veritable records, documenting a history range from early legendary kings of 11th–13th century to the deposition of [[Po Phaok The|Po Thak The]], the last king of [[Panduranga (Champa)|Panduranga]] in 1832, reckoning in total 39 rulers of Panduranga, the tales of spread of Islam to Champa in 1000 CE, to [[Po Phaok The|Po Thak The]]. The annals were written in Akhar Thrah (traditional) [[Cham script]] with collection of Cham and Vietnamese seals imprinted by Vietnamese rulers. However, it had been dismissed for a long time by scholars until [[Po Dharma]].{{sfn|Marrison|1985|pp=55–56}}{{clarification needed|date=October 2024}} Cham literature also have been greatly preserved in approximately more than 3,000 Cham manuscripts and printed books dating from the 16th to 20th centuries. The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL) at [[Northern Illinois University]] currently contains an extensive collection of 977 digitized Cham manuscripts, totaling more than 57,800 pages of multigenre content.