Bhavavarman II ( Khmer: ព្រះបាទភវវរ្ម័នទី២

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: พระบาทภววรรมัมที่ ๒ ) was King of the

Chenla Kingdom Chenla or Zhenla (; km, ចេនឡា, ; vi, Chân Lạp) is the Chinese designation for the successor polity of the kingdom of Funan preceding the Khmer Empire that existed from around the late sixth to the early ninth century in Indoc ...

, predecessor polity of the Khmer Empire, from 639 to 657.

Biography

King Bhavavarman II reigned shortly from 639 to 657 AD between

Isanavarman I Īśānavarman ( km, ឦសានវរ្ម័នទី១, , Iśânasena) or Yīshēnàxiāndài () was a king of the kingdom of Chenla in 7th century, which would later become the Khmer Empire. He was the son of, and successor to Mahendrav ...

and Jayavarman I. He was of unknown origin, neither the son nor the approved successor to Isanavarman I. He was the successor to the throne from King Isanvarman I (Khmer: ឦសានវម៌្មទី១), but there is no evidence as to whether he was the son of Ishavarman I. Scholars speculate that he may have been one of the princes in the royal family or was one of the sons of Issavaraman I, which still has no consensus on this assumption. He made many inscriptions, but none of them mentioned his history.Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (บ.ก.). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.សៀវភៅសិក្សាសង្គម ថ្នាក់ទី១០ ឆ្នាំ២០១៧ របស់ក្រសួងអប់រំយុវជននិងកីឡា ទំព័រទី១៤១
When King Bhavavarman II died, King Jayavarman I, his son, succeeded to the throne. When King Jayavarman I died without a male heir, his granddaughter,

Jayadevi Jayadevi ( km, ជ័យទេវី, ; fl. 713) was the queen regnant of the Kingdom of Chenla, the predecessor polity of the Khmer Empire, from 681 to 713. She was the daughter of king Jayavarman I. She also had a sister, princess Sobhajaya, ...

, ascended to the throne. During this time, the Chenla was in full swing with political turmoil and her reign was disputed, leading to the division of the state of Upper Chenla and Lower Chenla.

References

{{Monarchs of Khmer Varman dynasty Chenla 7th-century Cambodian monarchs