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Chenla or Zhenla (Chinese: 真臘; pinyin: Zhēnlà; Wade–Giles: Chen-la; Khmer: ចេនឡា, romanized: Chénla, Khmer pronunciation:; Vietnamese: Chân Lạp) is the Chinese designation for the vassal of the kingdom of Funan [1] preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late 6th to the early 9th century in Indochina.
In the 8th century, however, factional disputes at the Chenla court resulted in the splitting of the kingdom into rival northern and southern halves. According to Chinese chronicles, the two parts were known as Land Chenla (or Upper Chenla) and Water Chenla (or Lower Chenla). Land Chenla maintained a relatively stable existence, but Water ...
Mahipativarman, the king of Water Chenla, expressed his desire before his courtiers, to see the chopped head of the king of Zabag which is identified with Java. This information was known to Sanjaya, the king of Java. So Sanjaya conquered the Water Chenla and beheaded Mahipativarman.
Land Chenla was known to the Chinese as "Po Lou" or "Wen Dan" and dispatched a trade mission to the Tang dynasty court in 717 CE. Water Chenla, would come under repeated attack from Champa, the Mataram sea kingdoms in Indonesia based in Java, and finally pirates. From the instability the Khmer emerged.
It was the capital of the Kingdom of Funan early in its history, located near the Funan's sacred mountain of Ba Phnom. [3] Chinese reports indicated that it was about 193.12 km or 120 miles from the sea. According to Paul Pelliot, Vyadhapura was the capital of Water Chenla (Lower Chenla). [4]
Many global and Chinese brands have been caught in the crossfire over the years. People harvesting cotton at a field in Hami, in China's far west Xinjiang region, in 2011 - Stringer/AFP/AFP/Getty ...
Because inscriptions, dated between 681 and 713, don't name a sovereign and Chinese records state that the kingdom split into Land Chenla and Water Chenla after 707. [ 1 ] In 713, she left an inscription at Angkor in which she laments the bad times of the kingdom, and mention the donation she made to the sanctuary of Siva Tripurankata , which ...
Zhong Shanshan, China’s richest person, knows the value of a corporate reputation.He built Nongfu Spring, his bottled water company, by arguing that he got his water direct from the source ...