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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.
The history of Cambodia, a country in mainland Southeast Asia, begins with the earliest evidence of habitation around 5000 BCE. [1] [2] Detailed records of a political structure on the territory of what is now Cambodia first appear in Chinese annals in reference to Funan, a polity that encompassed the southernmost part of the Indochinese peninsula during the 1st to 6th centuries.
Jayendrabhā or Jayaendra[valla]bha (8th-century - 9th-century), was a queen regnant of Sambhupura Chenla in Cambodia. [2] She was also the queen of Jayavarman II , the king of Lower Chenla. She was the daughter of queen Nṛpatendradevī or Nrpendradevi of Sambhupura.
According to Paul Pelliot, Sambhupura was the capital of Land Chenla (Upper Chenla). [3] Today, the site of old Isanapura contains the ruins of 150 temples and buildings, which are a few centuries older than that of the Khmer Empire around Angkor Wat. During the Vietnam War, some of these temples were completely destroyed by US bombers.
By the 8th century CE, Chenla had divided into "Land Chenla " located in Laos, and "Water Chenla " founded by Mahendravarman near Sambor Prei Kuk in Cambodia. 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.
Female successors of Upper Chenla (Land Chenla) 11 Queen Indrani: Indrani c.713–760 12 Queen Nṛpatendradevī: Nrpatendradevi c.760–780 13 Queen Jayendrabhā: Jayendrabha c.780–802 14 Queen Jyeṣṭhāryā: Jyestharya c.802–803 Male successors of Lower Chenla (Water Chenla) 11 Pushkaraksha Pushkaraksha c.713–730 12 Shambhuvarman
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 ...
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