Historical figure
Udayadityavarman I
ឧទ័យាទិត្យាវរ្ម័នទី១
Udayadityavarman I (ឧទ័យាទិត្យាវរ្ម័នទី១) was a king of the Khmer Empire who followed his uncle Jayavarman V (ជ័យវរ្ម័នទី៥) and reigned for a year or less.[1][2] His reign ran from 1001 to 1002, at Yasodharapura (យសោធបុរៈ), the capital at Angkor (អង្គរ).[3][2] Only two inscriptions name him as the reigning king.[1]
Reign
Jayavarman V died in 1001, and his nephew Udayadityavarman I came to the throne after him.[2][1][3] Chun Chanboth wrote that the new king reigned for only a few months and that he abdicated or died in 1002.[2] In his account, a civil war broke out after that and lasted nine years.[2] Jayaviravarman (ជ័យវិរៈវរ្ម័ន) took the throne after him in 1002.[1][2]
Inscriptions
The two inscriptions that name Udayadityavarman I during his reign both date from the year 923 of the Saka era, which corresponds to 1001 to 1002.[1] Both come from the northeast.[1] One is at Koh Ker, the earlier capital of Jayavarman IV.[1] The other, written in Sanskrit, is at Prasat Khna, some 50 km (31 mi) farther northeast.[1] In the Koh Ker text the king is named only with the usual forms of royal address, with no terms that belong to him alone.[1]
C. Jacques gave Udayadityavarman I an inscription from Sambor, because it lies near the king's two certain texts, and with less certainty one from Wat Phu in southern Laos, dated a year later.[1] Because the king's two certain texts come from the northeast, Jacques also suggested that his realm reached the Mekong River.[1] Michael Vickery judged the Sambor and Wat Phu texts to be most probably those of Suryavarman I (សូរ្យវរ្ម័នទី១) instead.[1][2] He pointed to the royal titles they contain, which share terms with Suryavarman's, and to an inscription naming Suryavarman in the same year at another northeastern site, nearer to Sambor than either of Udayadityavarman's own records.[1]
Link to Suryavarman I
Vickery saw a likely family tie between Udayadityavarman I and Suryavarman I.[1] The throne passed from Suryavarman to his successor Udayadityavarman II, apparently in peace, and the new king bore the same name as the first Udayadityavarman.[1] Both names, like Suryavarman's, refer to the sun.[1] In Vickery's reading this suggests that Suryavarman was related to the first Udayadityavarman, which would place him in a legitimate royal line.[1] He found support for this in the northeast, where Suryavarman came from and where Udayadityavarman I's records also lie.[1] In Vickery's view, George Coedès and Lawrence Palmer Briggs must have passed over this link because they held Suryavarman to be a foreign invader.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 Angkor Database, Michael Vickery, The Reign of Suryavarman I and Royal Factionalism at Angkor (undated)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Radio Free Asia Khmer, Chun Chanboth, The works of four kings of the Angkor period, part 12 of a history series (April 23, 2014; in Khmer)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Angkor Database, Maurice Glaize, The Monuments of the Angkor Group (1944; English translation of the fourth French edition)