Rudravarman

Rudravarman was the last king of Funan, as mentioned by the Chinese annals.

He was the eldest son of Jayavarman Kaundinya and was born of a concubine. After the death of his father, he murdered the legitimate heir, his half-brother Gunavarman, and seized the throne in the year 514 .

He sent subsequently embassies in China in the years 517 , 519 , 520 , 530 , 535 and 539. He even proposed to give a hair of Buddha to the Emperor of China, if the sovereign agreed to send the monk Che Yun Pao.

Sources

• Bruno Dagens, Khmer , publishing company Les Belles Lettres ,January 2003, 335 p. ( ISBN 9782251410203 ) , chap. I ("The Khmer Country, History"), p. 24-25
• (in) George Cœdès and Walter F. Vella ( eds. ) ( Trans. From French by Susan Brown Cowing) The Indianized States of Southeast Asia , University of Hawaii Press ,May 1970, 424 p. ( ISBN 9780824800710 ) , p. 56-60
• Paul Pelliot , " The Funan ," Bulletin of the French School of the Far East , vol. 3, n o 1,1903, p. 270-271 ( ISSN 1760-737X , DOI 10.3406 / befeo.1903.1216 )