Rudravarman

Rudravarman

Rudravarman

King of Funan (6th c.)


Rudravarman (Khmer: រុទ្រវម៌្ម, Rudravarmman Chinese: 留陁跋摩; pinyin: Liútuóbámó), was the last king of Funan.

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Biography

Rudravarman was the last king of Funan, as mentioned by the Chinese annals.[citation needed] He was the eldest son of Jayavarman Kaundinya and was born of a concubine. After the death of his father, he murdered the legitimate heir, his half-brother Gunavarman, and seized the throne in the year 514. Until at least 517 he was involved in a power struggle with his step mother, Queen Kulaprabhavati, who was supported by his opponents.[1]

He subsequently sent embassies in China in the years 517, 519, 520, 530, 535 and 539.[citation needed] He even proposed to give a hair of the Buddha to the Emperor of China, if the sovereign agreed to send the monk Che Yun Pao to Funan.[citation needed]


References

  1. Jacobsen, Trudy (2008). Lost Goddesses: The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History. NIAS Press. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-87-7694-001-0.
  2. Kenneth T. So. "Preah Khan Reach and The Genealogy of Khmer Kings" (PDF). Cambosastra. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-08. Retrieved March 2, 2017.

Sources

  • Bruno Dagens, Khmer, publishing company Les Belles Lettres, January 2003, 335 p. ( ISBN 9782251410203 ), chap. I ("The Khmer Country, History"), p. 24-25
  • (in) George Cœdès and Walter F. Vella ( eds. ) ( Trans. From French by Susan Brown Cowing) The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, University of Hawaii Press, May 1970, 424 p. ( ISBN 9780824800710 ), p. 56-60
  • Paul Pelliot, " The Funan ," Bulletin of the French School of the Far East, vol. 3, n o 1,1903, p. 270-271 ( ISSN 1760-737X, DOI 10.3406 / befeo.1903.1216 )
Preceded by King of Funan
514-550
Succeeded by
Pvirakvarman I

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