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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.
Personal name Reign 1 Jayavarman II: Jayavarman 802–850 2 Jayavarman III: Jayavarthon 850–877 3 Indravarman I: Indravarman 877–889 4 Yasovarman I: Yasovarthon 889–910 5 Harshavarman I: Harshavarman 910–923 6 Ishanavarman II: Isanavarman 923–928 7 Jayavarman IV: Jayavarman 928–941 8 Harshavarman II: Harshavarman 941–944 9 ...
Jayavarman may refer to: Jayavarman, the purported original name of the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma; King Kaundinya Jayavarman of Funan, d. 514; Any of the following eight kings of Cambodia: Jayavarman I, ruled c. 657–681; Jayavarman II, ruled c. 770–835; Jayavarman III, ruled c. 835–877; Jayavarman IV, ruled c. 928–941; Jayavarman V ...
It was built in the Bayon style under Jayavarman VII, though its modern name is from an 8th-century sculpture discovered at the site. A datable inscription of the 14th-15th century identifies it with Dharmaraja , the "King of the Order", which is an epithet of Yama , the Indic god of death and ruler of the underworld.
Jayarajadevi in Preah Khan. Jayarajadevi (fl. 1181), was the first queen consort of King Jayavarman VII of the Khmer Empire. [1]She was the daughter of ‘kshatriyas, amongst the elite of the royal family’, and the younger sister of queen Indradevi.
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).
She married before 1125. She best known for being the mother of Jayavarman VII, who was born circa 1125. [2]: 169 Her spouse became king in 1150, and she became queen. An inscription described Queen Jayarajadevi after her husband went into exile:
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.