Vikrāntavarman III was a king of
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 ...
, reigning from 817 to around 854.
Vikrantavarman was a son of king
Harivarman I (r. 802–817). In 813 he was appointed by his father position ruler (Adhipati) of
Pāṇḍuraṅga Principality (
Phan Rang Phan may refer to:
* Phan (surname), a Vietnamese family name
* Phan District, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand
* Phan River
The Phan River () is a river of Bình Thuận Province, Vietnam.Vietnam Administrative Atlas, NXB Bản Đồ, 2004 It flo ...
), and became king of mandala Champa in 817.
He performed rituals and presented gifts (rice fields) dedicating for the temple of Śiva, worshipped under the names of Vikrāntarudreśvara and Vikrāndevādhibhadreśvara in the
Po Nagar temple, praising the king's ancestors. His inscriptions are typically very short. Nothing more is known about him.
An inscription dating from 829 AD in Bakul, Ninh Thuận mentions shrines built for worship Śiva and the Buddha, as they correspondingly forming the basis of local beliefs.
Suddenly, from 854 all southern inscriptions had vanished for unknown reasons. There was a 20-years break between year 854 and year 875. By 875, information again popped up in the
Thu Bon River Valley under the new Buddhist ruler whose personal named
Laksmindra Bhumiçvara Gramasvamin.
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