Jayaviravarman is a king who reigned over the Khmer Empire from 1002 to 1011 AD. The origin of this prince is uncertain: According Achilles Dauphin-Meunier, he was the rightful successor and brother of

Udayadityavarman I Udayadityavarman I was the king of Angkor who reigned from 1001 to 1002 AD. Maternal nephew of his predecessor Jayavarman V (968 – 1001), he reigned only for a few months. His death triggered a nine-year civil war. His successor in Yaśodharapu ...

, who lives climbing the pretensions of a usurper, Suryavarman I, but managed to stay in Yaçodhapura. George Coedès, who considers him a usurper, believes that Jayaviravarman was the prince of the city of Tambralinga (Nakhon Si Thammarat in Thailand), and that he takes power and reigns in Angkor. MJ Boisselier awards him Ta Keo. In any case, Jayaviravarman disappears after a nine-year civil war.

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George Cœdès George Cœdès (; 10 August 1886 – 2 October 1969) was a 20th-century French scholar of southeast Asian archaeology and history. Biography Cœdès was born in Paris to a family of supposed Hungarian-Jewish émigrés. In fact, the family was ...

, ''Les États hindouisés d'Indochine et d'Indonésie'', Paris, 1964. * Achille Dauphin-Meunier, ''Histoire du Cambodge'',

Que sais-je ? "Que sais-je?" (QSJ) (; Literally: "What do I know?", ) is an editorial collection published by the Presses universitaires de France (PUF). The aim of the series is to provide the lay reader with an accessible introduction to a field of study wr ...

nº 916, P.U.F, 1968. 12th-century Cambodian monarchs Khmer Empire {{Cambodia-royal-stub