Historical figure
Yasovarman II
Yasovarman II was a king of the Khmer Empire at Angkor in the 12th century.[1] Michael Vickery wrote that he was overthrown, presumably by Tribhuvanadityavarman.[2] Roche wrote that questions about his sovereignty, and that of Dharanindravarman II, remain unresolved.[3]
Reign
Maurice Glaize's list of kings, published in 1944, places Yasovarman II around 1160, after Dharanindravarman II, and calls him a "parent" of that king.[1] Peter Sharrock wrote in 2009 that the reigns of Yasovarman II and Tribhuvanadityavarman were obscure and that the family lines of both kings are unknown.[4]
In K. 288, one of the Chrung inscriptions, Jayavarman VII set out the reigns before his own. In George Coedès's summary of it, as Vickery quoted it, Yasovarman II was "despoiled" by Tribhuvanadityavarman, who was in turn despoiled by Jaya Indravarman, a king of the Cham.[2] A second, badly damaged inscription, K. 485 from Phimeanakas, speaks of Yasovarman and a servant who wanted royal power. The verb between them is lost; the quoted translation fills the gap with "effaced". The servant is presumably Tribhuvanadityavarman.[2] The same inscription says that Jayavarman VII came back from Vijaya, in Champa, to help Yasovarman. Vickery added that Yasovarman had already been overthrown, and that Jayavarman waited.[2]
Cham inscriptions also record a victory over the Cambodians inside Cambodia, which Vickery placed, presumably, in the time of Yasovarman II.[2]
Order of kings
Coedès, as Vickery summarized his account, had Dharanindravarman II follow Suryavarman II, and then two more kings, Yasovarman II and Tribhuvanadityavarman.[2] Glaize's list follows the same order.[1] Louise Roche wrote in 2020 that two inscriptions, K. 1222 and K. 1297, present Tribhuvanadityavarman as the direct successor of Suryavarman II, reigning from 1149 or 1150 to 1167 or 1177.[3] She added that questions about the sovereignty of Yasovarman II and of Dharanindravarman II remain unresolved.[3]
Banteay Samre
Roche listed the reigns to which published studies have assigned the temple of Banteay Samre. One is that of Suryavarman II, from 1112 or 1113 to 1149 or 1150. The others are those of Dharanindravarman II and of Yasovarman II, both in the third quarter of the 12th century.[3] Roche dated its building to the reign of Tribhuvanadityavarman.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Angkor Database, Maurice Glaize, The Monuments of the Angkor Group (1944; English translation of the fourth French edition)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Asia Research Institute, Michael Vickery, Champa Revised, ARI Working Paper No. 37 (March 2005)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Arts Asiatiques, Louise Roche, Le sanctuaire de Banteay Samrae à Angkor : une fondation bouddhique du règne de Tribhuvanādityavarman (2020; in French)
- ↑ Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Peter D. Sharrock, Garuda, Vajrapani and Religious Change in Jayavarman VII's Angkor (February 2009)