<P> Other famous ceremonial holy days include Magha Puja day, in February and Asalha Puja day in July which commemorates the day on which Lord Buddha delivered the First Sermon to his five disciples, namely, Konthanya, Vassapa, Bhattiya, Mahanama and Assashi at Esipatanamaruekathayawan forest and there explained his theory of the Four Noble Truths (Ariyasai). </P> <P> Indian astrology still has a great impact on several important stages of Thai life . Thai people still seek advice from knowledgeable Buddhist monks or Brahman astrologers about the auspicious or inauspicious days for conducting or abstaining from ceremonies for moving house or getting married . </P> <P> According to the Thai monk Venerable Buddhadsa Bhikku's writing,' India's Benevolence to Thailand', the Thais also obtained the methods of making herbal medicines from the Indians . Some plants like Sarabhi of Guttiferae family, Kanika or hursinghar, phikun or mimusops and bunnak or the rose chestnut etc. were brought from India . He pointed out that Thai food too was influenced by India . He claimed that Thai people learned how to use spices in their food in various ways from Indians . </P> <P> The Indonesian archipelago saw the rise of Hinduised empires of Sumatra and Java . In the islands of Southeast Asia the first organised state to achieve fame was the Hindu Malay kingdom of Srivijaya, with its capital at Palembang in southern Sumatra . Its commercial pre-eminence was based on command of the sea route from India to China between Sumatra and the Malay peninsula (later known as the Straits of Malacca). In the 6th--7th centuries Srivijaya succeeded Funan as the leading state in South East Asia . Its ruler was the overlord of the Malay peninsula and western Java as well as Sumatra . Like most of the early kingdoms of South East Asia, Srivijaya was Dravidian in culture and administration, and Buddhism became firmly entrenched there . The expansion of Srivijaya was resisted in eastern Java, where the powerful Buddhist Sailendra dynasty arose . (From the 7th century onwards there was great activity in temple building in eastern Java . The most impressive of the ruins is at Borobudur, considered to have been the largest Buddhist temple in the world .) Sailendra rule spread to southern Sumatra, and up to Malay peninsula to Cambodia (where it was replaced by the Angkor kingdom). In the 9th century, the Sailendras moved to Sumatra, and a union of Srivijaya and the Sailendras formed an empire which dominated much of South East Asia for the next five centuries . With the departure of the Sailendras a new kingdom appeared in eastern Java, which reverted from Buddhism to Hinduism . After 500 Years of supremacy Srivijaya was superseded by Majapahit . The various Indianised states and empires of this first 1500 years CE, though founded by Indian colonisation and maintaining diplomatic contacts with India, remained politically independent of the Indian kingdoms . The only exception to this was the temporary conquest of Malaya by the Chola kingdom of southern India it the 11th century, but the Sailendra kings of Srivijaya were victorious in a long war against the Chola armies . </P>

Which of the following religions dominated india and parts of southeast asia