Chronology of Khmer Kings - Funan

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 Name Capital Monument Brief Description

Hun-t’ien
1st Century AD

Hun-tien

Kaundinya

  VyadhapuraAngkor Borei

 Hun-t’ien (Kaundinya ) - Liu-yeh (Soma)

Liu-yeh means willow leave.

Vyadhapura may have been at Prei Veng area, at the foot of Ba Phnom, or further south, at Angkor Borei.

Hun P’an-huang

Hun-pan-huang

  Hun-P'an-huang died at 90 years of age

P’an-P’an

Pan-pan

  Give all responsibility to his general Fan-man or Fan Shih-man

Died after 3 years on the throne

Fan Shih-man
205-225

Fan-shih-man

Fan-man

  Fan-man or Fan Shih-man

Not much support from people and local authorities

City called To-Mo

P’an-P’an’s great general

Great king of Funan

(Fan) Chin-Sheng

Chin-sheng

  Succeeded his ailing father Fan Shih-Man

(Fan) Chan
5th king 240?

Fan-chan

  Son of Fan Shih-man’s sister

Killed his cousin (Fan) Chin-Sheng and proclaims himself king of Funan

Fan-Ch’ang
6th king

Fan-chang

  After his father Fan Shih-man died, as an infant was reared among people

At 20 year of age, killed (Fan) Chan and became king

Fan-Hsun
7th king 285

Fan-hsun

  (Fan) Chan’s great general

Killed Fan-Ch’ang and became king. Refer Chinese diplomat Chu-Ying and K’ang-Tai

Chu-chan-tan
8th king 357

 

  Chu-chan-tan (Chandana)

Sent embassy to the Eastern Jin (317-420)

Chiao-cheu-ju
9th king

Chiao-cheu-ju

Kaundinya II

  Chiao-cheu-ju (Kaundiniya II)

From India/Buddhism

Shih-li-t’o-pa-no
10th king 420-79

Sri Indravarman

  Shih-li-t’o-pa-no (Sri Indravarman or Srutaravarman)

She-yeh-pa-no
11th king 483-93

She-yeh-pa-no

Kaundinya Jayavarman

  She-yeh-pa-no (Kaundinya Jayavarman)

Send Indian Buddhist Monk Nagasena to China

She-yeh-pa-no died in 514

Rudravarman
12th king 514-40

Rudravarman

  Rudravarman

Son of concubine of Kaudinya Jayavarman at Angkor Borei

Kills his younger brother, who is the son of the legitimate queen of Jayavarman and the legitimate heir to the throne, and makes himself king

The first Khmer sculptures, in style of Phnom Da, a sacred hill at Angkor Borei, are attributed to that period

Seem to be the last king of Funan

He appointed as court doctors two brothers (Brahmadatta and Brahmasimha) Adhyapura (now Ang Chumnik), which was to supply ministers to four generation of kings
  

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