Indravarman VI
Indravarman VI, Ba Dich Lai, Chang-pa-ti-lai, Virabhadravarman, or Ngauk Klaung Vijaya was the son of Jaya Simhavarman VI. He took the name Indravarman when crowned in 1432. During his reign, the Vietnamese resumed their hostility and laid siege of capital Vijaya in 1403, where they faced defeat and were forced to leave after one month. Indravarman took advantage of declining Khmer Empire to fill up void by attacking Angkor territories, which led Cambodian king Ponhea Yat to seek intervention from the Chinese. In 1408 and 1414, Ming army from recent occupying Jiaozhi (former Dai Viet) poked into Champa and sent a threat to Indravarman, demanding him to cease hostility against Cambodia.
Indravarman VI | |||||||||
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Raja-di-raja | |||||||||
King of Champa | |||||||||
Reign | 1400–1441 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Simhavarman VI | ||||||||
Successor | Maha Kali | ||||||||
Born | ? Champa | ||||||||
Died | 1441 Champa | ||||||||
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House | Vr̥ṣu dynasty |
Despite that, in 1421 Indravarman invaded Cambodian territories in the Mekong Delta, and then annexed many parts of it, including the marketplace town of Bien Hoa, and offered a statue of Tribhuvanākrānta (Vishnu) there. That marked the southern most extent of Champa.[1][2]
In order to maintain Đại Việt neutrality, he gave up the important province of Indrapura.[3]: 238–239 [4] Maspero lists Nauk Glaun Vijaya as the son of Jaya Simhavarman VI, which may be the same individual, but states he did not assume his father's reign after his death in 1441. Instead, a nephew, Maha Vijaya, ascended the throne.[5]: 114–115
Family
Indravarman VI belongs to the Vr̥ṣu lineage of Simhavarman VI. His nephew was Maha Vijaya (in Chinese and Vietnamese sources) or Virabhadravarman, there are indicators that two characters may be the same individual.[6]
References
- Golzio, Karl-Heinz (2004), Inscriptions of Campā based on the editions and translations of Abel Bergaigne, Étienne Aymonier, Louis Finot, Édouard Huber and other French scholars and of the work of R. C. Majumdar. Newly presented, with minor corrections of texts and translations, together with calculations of given dates, Shaker Verlag, pp. 199–200
- Griffiths, Arlo; Lepoutre, Amandine; Southworth, William A.; Phần, Thành (2012), The inscriptions of Campā at the Museum of Cham sculpture in Đà Nẵng / Văn khắc Chămpa tại bảo tàng điêu khắc Chăm – Đà Nẵng, Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City Publishing House (published in collaboration with EFEO and the Center for Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Studies, Hồ Chí Minh City)
- Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed.). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.
- Chapuis, Oscar. A History of Vietnam: From Hong Bang to Tu Duc. Greenwood Group. <https://books.google.com/books?id=Jskyi00bspcC&pg=PA207&vq=Mahendravarman&dq=Tra+Hoa&source=gbs_search_s&sig=fPLLWgziZGe_SFPpf2s-v0Nrug0#PPA45,M1>.
- Maspero, G., 2002, The Champa Kingdom, Bangkok: White Lotus Co., Ltd., ISBN 9747534991
- Finot, Louis (1915). "Notes d'épigraphie XIV : Les inscriptions du musée de Hanoi". Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient. 15 (2): 14.