Ancient Indian Colonization in South-East Asia c9.84

c9.84

Jaya-varman VII has deservedly won the epithet of Grand Monarch. He fully avenged the sack of the capital city of Kambuja by Champā. A prolonged war followed, in course of which each side invaded the dominions of the other. But Jaya-varman VII obtained a complete victory in A.D. 1190. The king of Champā was brought a prisoner to Kambuja and the whole kingdom lay prostrate before the victor. He divided it into two parts, and appointed his own brother-in-law and his victorious general rulers over them. But the Chams would not take this defeat lying down and there were constant revolts. At last Kambuja evacuated Champā in 1220 A.D. and a formal peace was concluded two years later.