区连（？—？）是占城第一王朝的建立者。《后汉书》作区怜，[1]《梁书》作区达，[2]区连可能是占婆碑文中的“释利摩罗”（Sri Mara），[3][4][5]但也有学者认为“释利摩罗”实为扶南国王范师蔓。[6][7][8]
根据中国史料的记载，区连原为东汉象林县功曹。137年（永和二年），区连率领占族数千人起兵，攻打象林县，杀死县令。随后占领了整个日南郡，自称“林邑王”。交趾刺史樊演征交趾郡、九真郡的士兵一万余人前往征讨。汉军害怕远征，发生哗变，因此樊演兵败。消息传至雒阳，汉顺帝欲发荆、扬、兖、豫四州共四万人兵力前往镇压，被大臣李固劝止。
区连死后，林邑国王位传数世，其后国王无嗣，立外甥范熊为王。
《后汉书卷八十六·南蛮西南夷列传》:"永和二年，日南、象林徼外蛮夷区怜等数千人攻象林县，烧城寺，杀长吏"
邱新民, 东南亚文化交通史 Singapore Society of Asian Studies - 1984- Page 184 "晋书卷九十七林邑国传说: "后汉末,县功曹姓区,有子日连,杀令自立为王,子孙相承"。其详细情形,据水经注卷三十六引林邑记说: "国无文史,失其筹代,世数难详"。但据一般的研究,以为林邑王统的始祖,是碑文中所载的释利摩罗"
Jump up ^Milton Walter Meyer Asia: A Concise History 1997 Page 63 "around the beginning of the third century a Hindu ruler named Sri Mara founded the kingdom of Champa and conquered ..."
Dougald J. W. O'Reilly Early Civilizations of Southeast Asia - 2007 -Page 131 "preferred to identify Sri Mara with Fan Shi-man of Funan (circa 230 C.E.). This view is indirectly supported by Filliozat (1968) and Jacques (1969, 123).
H. R. Chakrabartty Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos, bound in comradeship: a panoramic study 1988 - Volume 2 - Page 423 "Maintaining his tempo of triumphs, Fan Shih-man, or Sri Mara, conquered most of Siam, central Burma and northern Malaya.5 According to Chinese sources, the Great King died in action while campaigning in Chin-lin, meaning 'Frontier of ."
