Indravarman VI

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Indravarman VI
Raja-di-raja
King of Champa
Reign1400–1441
PredecessorSimhavarman VI
SuccessorVirabhadravarman
Born?
Champa
Died1441
Champa
Names
Vr̥ṣu-Viṣṇujāti Vīrabhadravarmadeva (early years)
Śrī Vr̥ṣu-Indravarman-Viṣṇujāti Vīrabhadravarmadeva (later years)
Vr̥ṣuvaṁśa
Regnal name
Vīrabhadravarmadeva (1400–1432)
Indravarman (1432–1441)
HouseVr̥ṣu dynasty

Indravarman VI, Ba Dich Lai, Chang-pa-ti-lai, Virabhadravarman, or Ngauk Klaung Vijaya was a king of Champa, ruling from 1400 to 1441. He took the regnal name Indravarman when crowned in 1432.

Reign

Museum of Vietnamese History. Text in Old Cham
read: Om. Homage to Śiva. Hail!

Vr̥ṣu-Viṣṇujāti Virabhadravarman or Vr̥ṣuvaṁśa was the son of king

An Khe) in 1409.[3]

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.

Despite that, in 1421 Indravarman invaded Cambodian territories in the

Bien Hoa, and offered a statue of Tribhuvanākrānta (Vishnu) there. That marked the southern most extent of Champa.[4][5]

In order to maintain

Indrapura.[6]: 238–239 [7] 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.[8]
: 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.[9]

The city of Samriddhipuri (An Khê)

During Indravarman VI's reign, Cham sphere of influence penetrated deep into the present day Central Highlands. He erected an inscription at the city of Samriddhipuri (now An Khê, Gia Lai province) in 1438 to commemorate his victories over the Viets (yvan) and the Khmer (kvīra). He offered the city inhabitants a Viet princess, Viet war prisoners, a white elephant, and spoilers he had seized from the Dai Viet. In 1435 he ordered the masonry of a Śiva sculpture to symbolize his connections with the highlanders.[10][2]

References

  1. ^ Zottoli, Brian A. (2011), Reconceptualizing Southern Vietnamese History from the 15th to 18th Centuries: Competition along the Coasts from Guangdong to Cambodia, University of Michigan, p. 68
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  3. ^ 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, p. 199
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ 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)
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  8. ^ Finot, Louis (1915). "Notes d'épigraphie XIV : Les inscriptions du musée de Hanoi". Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême-Orient. 15 (2): 14.
  9. ^ 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), pp. 205–218