1. Trasak Paem is commonly considered as a lengendary ruler of the Khmer Empire who presumably died around 1340.
12 Facts About Trasak Paem
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Trasak Paem's legend is similar to Nyaung-u Sawrahan in earlier Burmese Chronicles.
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Trasak Paem is the first Khmer sovereign mentioned by the Cambodian Royal Chronicles alone.
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Trasak Paem is the first among a series of nineteen rulers of the Khmer Empire that are presumed to have ruled Cambodia since 443 BC.
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The Chronicles indicate that Trasak Paem was the royal gardener of a king Jayavarman IX as known from Khmer inscriptions.
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Trasak Paem reserved the consumption of it for his king, named Norodom, son of Senaka, who had caused a flood to destroy his land after he angered the naga king Puchang.
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Trasak Paem married Candravati the daughter of his predecessor and the couple would thus be at the origin of the dynasty which still reigns over Cambodia today.
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The legend of Trasak Paem has a narrative very similar to one present in the Burmese Chronicles of Maha Yazawin and Pagan Yazawin.
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The correspondence between the two narratives is striking and due to the greater antiquity of the Burmese Chronicle, it is presumable that the Cambodian narrative of Trasak Paem was copied on the latter.
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In 1905, Trasak Paem was widely believed in Cambodia as a historical figure.
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The legend of Trasak Paem seems to symbolize the profound cultural change in the country that Achille Dauphin-Meunier calls the "14th Century Revolution".
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The victory spear associated with the legend of Trasak Paem is one of Khmer royal regalia, along with the royal sword called Preah Khan Reach, the dagger called Kris given to the Muslim king of Cambodia, Ramathipadi I by a Malay princess.