Jaya Satyavarman (died 787 AD), was the second king of the Fifth dynasty of
Champa
Champa (Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ; km, ចាម្ប៉ា; vi, Chiêm Thành or ) were a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is contemporary central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd cen ...
, modern-day Central Vietnam, reigned from 770 to 787. He was the nephew (sister's son) of king
Prithindravarman
Prithivindravarman (?–774) was a king of Champa, reigning from 758 to around 770.
The reign of Prithivindravarman marks the starting point of a Panduranga dynasty, with capital at Virapura (Phan Rang), south of Champa. The Simhapura dynasty ...
, founder of a dynasty that centralized around the southern part of Champa.
[ECIC I p. 351,
Arlo Griffiths and William A. Southworth, ''La stèle d’installation de Śrī Satyadeveśvara : une nouvelle inscription du Campā trouvée à Phước Thiện,'' Journal Asiatique, 295 (2007), 349–381.]
In 774 and 787, Javanese raiders assaulted Champa, plundered the
Po Nagar temple, vandalized and looted the temple's treasures and burned the statue of Siva. Inscription C. 216 describes the "darkness" of invaders' skin complexion. Satyavarman quickly repulsed the invaders and rebuilt the temple.
An stele erected on 16 May 783, commemorating his reconstruction of the linga for Śiva in
Phước Thiện,
Ninh Thuận Province (French: Cette installation du linga du Dieu Primordial, exécutée par lui Satyavarman...), previously was looted by the Javanese.
Satyavarman died in 787 and was succeeded by his brother
Indravarman I, who had his own domain in Ninh Thuận.
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