Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pinpeat" in English language version.
between 225 and 250...first to enter into official and direct relations with the princes of India...according to the History of the Three Kingdoms, who in 243 'sent an embassy [to China] to offer a present of musicians and products to the country'
Buddhism reasserted itself in Kalinga under the Murunda dynasty in the third century A.D.
Khmer people call this music "Pin Peat" because this orchestra combines Pin and Peat (Koang Peat) instruments
(A.D. 240 – 243), the King Fan Siyon had Khmer dance and orchestra. He sent his performing team to the Kingdom of Kra Vo under the reign of the King Sun Chorn in Southern China. The orchestra was Pin Peat...
[In the section 'The instruments of the Shiva's dances from a Khmer legend', musicologist Patrick Kersalé reported that a version of this legend had been collected in Cambodia in the 1960s by Jacques Brunet.]