Po Saut (?–1694), also spelled Po Saot or Po Sot, sometimes known as Wan Daim, was the king of Panduranga

Champa Champa (Cham language, Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, چمڤا; ; 占城 or 占婆) was a collection of independent Chams, Cham Polity, polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day Central Vietnam, central and southern Vietnam from ...

who ruled from 1660 to 1693. In Vietnamese records, he was mentioned as Bà Tranh (婆爭). He was also the last king of independent Champa.Vietnam-Champa Relations and the Malay-Islam Regional Network in the 17th–19th Centuries
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Biography

According to the Cham chronicles, Po Saut was a son of king

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, his mother Po Mul being a daughter of Po Rome. He was of Churu and

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parentage via his mother. He was a

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; in 1685, he requested a copy of the

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from Father Ferret, a French missionary serving in Champa. A Cham manuscript provides the following cryptic characterization of his reign: "Subsequently a man comparable to a sledge is seen, taking the Banis uslimsacross there, having a size similar to a bronze ''hanrang'' He constantly summoned the turtledoves he peopleto make them embrace the Muslim faith. Bodies and souls fall to the others. Then Po Saut was king." After 1653, Champa paid tribute to the realm of the Vietnamese

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, but was still fully autonomous. Champa came however into conflict with Vietnam after the death of the relatively inefficient Đàng Trong ruler

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(1691) and the accession of his adolescent son. Po Saut aimed to gain back the

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region which had been lost to the Vietnamese Nguyễn lord in 1653. Hostilities began in 1692 but Champa was conquered by Vietnamese general

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in the first month of 1693. Po Saut was captured seven months later and transferred to

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(present-day

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). In there,

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gave him a royal pardon. He died early in the next year, and the Nguyễn lord paid for his funeral.大南寔錄前編 • Đại Nam thực lục tiền biên ( q.07-09), page 7
/ref> The Nguyễn appointed his luitenant and brother Po Saktiraydapatih as successor. He left a son who became ruler of the Cham polity in 1731 under the name Po Thuntiraidaputih.

References

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