Jayavarman II was a powerful Khmer king who declared independence from a polity inscriptions named "Java", which most probably refers to the island of Java in the Indonesian archipelago.
14 Facts About Jayavarman II
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Jayavarman II founded many capitals such as Mahendraparvata, Indrapura, Amarendrapura, and Hariharalaya.
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In 781, Jayavarman II took action by claiming independence on the land of Chenla.
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Jayavarman II became king in Indrapura by 781, and he married Jayendrabha, queen regnant of Sambhupura Chenla, in order to unite Cambodia under one king.
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Jayavarman II became King consort of Sambhupura by marrying her.
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Jayavarman II is widely regarded as the king that set the foundation of the Angkor period in Cambodian history, beginning with the grandiose consecration ritual he conducted in 802 on Mount Mahendraparvata, now known as Phnom Kulen.
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An inscription from the Sdok Kak Thom temple recounts that at Mahendraparvata, Jayavarman II took part in a ritual performed by the Brahman Hiranyadama, and his chief priest Lord Sivakaivalya, a devaraja which placed him as a chakravartin, Lord of the Universe.
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Jayavarman II founded Hariharalaya near present-day Roluos, the first settlement in what would later become the Khmer Empire.
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Jayavarman II later installed himself at another city state, now known as Banteay Prei Nokor, near present-day Kompong Cham.
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Once established in the Angkor region, Jayavarman II appears to have reigned not only in Hariharalaya, located just north of the Tonle Sap lake, but at a place that inscriptions call Amarendrapura.
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Jayavarman II appears to have been of aristocratic birth, beginning his career of conquest in the southeast of present-day Cambodia.
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The most valuable inscription concerning Jayavarman II is the one dated to 1052 AD, two centuries after his death, found at the Sdok Kak Thom temple in present-day Thailand.
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Jayavarman II died in 850 AD and received the posthumous name of Parameshwara, "the supreme ruler," an epithet of Sri Shiva.
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Jayavarman II was formally honored along with these two kings and their wives in the Preah Ko temple in Roulous, built by King Indravarman I and inaugurated in 880 AD.