India–Indonesia relations dispatched his men to Yawadvipa, the island of Java, in search of Sita. Indians had visited Indonesia since ancient times, and ancient Indonesian (Austronesian people) has embarked in maritime trade in Southeast Asian seas and Indian Ocean. The Ancient Indians spread Hinduism and many other aspects of Indian culture including the Sanskrit and Brahmi Script. The trace of Indian influences is most evident in great numbers of Sanskrit loanwords in Indonesian languages. The name "Indonesia" derives from the Latin "Indus", meaning "India", and the Greek "nesos", meaning "island". (due to the similarity of the culture in both regions). The name
Indian people In early Vedic literature, the term "Āryāvarta" (Sanskrit: आर्यावर्त) was in popular use before "Bhārata". The Manusmṛti (2.22) gives the name "Āryāvarta" to "the tract between the Himalaya and the Vindhya ranges, from the Eastern (Bay of Bengal) to the Western Sea (Arabian Sea)". While the word Indian and India is derived from Greek ("Indía"), via Latin "India". "Indía" in Koine Greek denoted the region beyond the Indus () river, since Herodotus (5th century BC) , "hē Indikē chōrē"; "the Indian land", , "Indos", "an Indian", from Old Persian "Hinduš" and medieval term Hindustani. The name is derived ultimately from