Võ Cạnh inscription

The inscription mentions the name of King Sri Mara, which according to paleographic analysis was to whom it was erected by his descendants around 2nd or 3rd century CE.

George Coedès mentioned the possibility of identifying Sri Mara with Fan Shih-man (c. 230 CE), which according to the Chinese chronicles was one of the rulers of Funan.

[4] Coedès considered the Võ Cạnh inscription as proof of the first wave of Indianization in Southeast Asia.

Historian Anton O. Zakharov from the Russian Academy of Sciences, and another paleographer, D.C. Sircar, affirm the date of >4th century AD or even late as 5th century AD because the Vo Canh stele contains verses in poetic meter Vasantatilaka, which can be found in inscriptions of Samudragupta who reigned from 335 to 376.

[9] The parts of the text that can still be read contain the following phrases:[9] The mention of "the joy of the family of the daughter of the grandson of King Sri Mara .." may indicate the existence of a matrilineal system, which applies inheritance of assets to female relatives.