Rudravarman

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

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

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 )

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