Isanavarman II

Angkor › Yasodharapura

1. Funanto about 550
2. Chenla6th to 8th century
3. Angkor802 to 1431
4. After Angkor1431 to 1794
5. Modern kingdomfrom 1794

BeforeHarshavarman Ibefore 910 to after 922 (Glaize 1944)

This reignIsanavarman II925 (Glaize 1944)

AfterJayavarman IV921 to 940 (Glaize 1944)

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Isanavarman II was a king of the Khmer Empire. He was a son of the king Yasovarman. Maurice Glaize's list of Khmer kings places him after his brother Harshavarman I and gives his posthumous name as Paramarudraloka.

Illustration inspired by the North Khleang in Angkor Thom.

Historical figure details
Roles	Khmer king
Period	925
Country	Khmer Empire (present-day Cambodia)
Subjects	History & Remembrance

Reign

Glaize's list gives the single date 925 for his reign. The same list dates the reign of Jayavarman IV from 921 to 940, with his capital at Koh Ker.

The historian Michael Vickery proposed a model of royal succession in which every descendant of the dynasty's founder had some claim to the throne. He wrote that, under this model, the most "illegitimate" kings before the 11th century would have been Yasovarman's sons Harshavarman I and Isanavarman II, and Jayavarman IV's son Harshavarman III. He noted that all three reigned only briefly.

In inscriptions

Vickery wrote that the inscription K.468, at the Khleang monuments of Angkor, was composed by an official. He wrote that the same official referred to earlier kings: Harshavarman I, Isanavarman II and either Yasovarman I or Jayavarman IV.

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