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Jayavarman VII built 121 "houses with fire" rest houses built every fifteen kilometers along raised highways for travellers, and 102 hospitals. His was the " Buddhism of the Greater Vehicle ". However, Brahmans continued to play a "role at court", with Hrishikesa being made chief priest, with the title Jayamahapradhana.
The Khmer hospitals appear across a great expanse of Jayavarman VII's territory and mostly near main settlements. [4] Archaeological remains show that Arogayasala had a consistent structural composition. Inscriptional evidence from the Ta Prohm inscription (1186 CE) attests to 102 Arogayasala across Jayavarman VII's territory during his reign.
The bust of Jayavarman VII is a grey-green sandstone head, with downcast eyes and a faint smile. The hairstyle, with the hair pulled into a small round bun at the top of the skull, makes it possible to identify the subject as being a man; the four squatting men sculpted on the pediment of the temple of Banteay Srei, kept at the Guimet museum, have practically the same hairstyle.
Angkor scholar George Coedès has theorized that Jayavarman VII stood squarely in the tradition of the Khmer monarchs in thinking of himself as a devaraja (god-king), the difference being that while his predecessors were Hindus and associated themselves with Brahma and his symbol the, chaturmukha (four faces), Jayavarman VII was a Buddhist. [9]
Preah Khan was built on the site of Jayavarman VII's victory over the invading Chams in 1191 [citation needed].Unusually the modern name, meaning "holy sword", is derived from the meaning of the original—Nagara Jayasri (holy city of victory).
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Vidyanandana, assisted by Jayavarman VII, retook Vijaya, killing both Jaya Indravarman IV and Jaya Indravarman V, then "reigned without opposition over the Kingdom of Champa," [20] [21] declaring his independence from the Khmer Empire. Jayavarman VII responded by launching several invasions of Champa in 1192, 1195, 1198–1199, 1201-1203.
Jayavarman VII, ruled 1181–1219; Jayavarman VIII, ruled 1243–1295; Kings of central India: Jayavarman (Chandela dynasty), ruled c. 1110-1120;