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Sri Mara (
Cham Cham or CHAM may refer to: Ethnicities and languages *Chams, people in Vietnam and Cambodia **Cham language, the language of the Cham people ***Cham script ***Cham (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Cham script *Cham Albanian ...
: ꨦꨴꨫ ꨠꨩꨣ, Khmer: ឝ្រី មារ, th, ศรีมาระ fl. 137 or 192 AD) was the founder of the kingdom of
Champa Champa (Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ; km, ចាម្ប៉ា; vi, Chiêm Thành or ) were a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is contemporary central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd cen ...
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Biography

He is known in Chinese records as Qū Lián ( 連), or Zhulian, which in Vietnamese pronunciation is Khu Liên (also 區連). Attempts have also been made to identify Sri Mara with
Fan Shiman Fan commonly refers to: * Fan (machine), a machine for producing airflow, often used for cooling ** Hand fan, an implement held and waved by hand to move air for cooling * Fan (person), short for fanatic; an enthusiast or supporter, especially wit ...
(范師蔓) of
Funan Funan (; km, ហ៊្វូណន, ; vi, Phù Nam, Chữ Hán: ) was the name given by Chinese cartographers, geographers and writers to an ancient Indianized state—or, rather a loose network of states ''(Mandala)''—located in mainla ...
(circa 230 CE). on a stele recorded as Sri Mara (Chinese 释利摩罗). He was born in
Tượng Lâm Tượng Lâm (Vietnamese chữ Hán pronunciation of Chinese: 象林 Xianglin) was an area in what is today the central Vietnam modern-day Thừa Thiên Huế province which rebelled against the Han dynasty’s rule during the second Chinese domin ...
(Vietnamese pronunciation of Chinese 象林, in what is today
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in
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) an area of tension between the
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and the natives of
Lâm Ấp Lâm Ấp (Vietnamese pronunciation of Middle Chinese 林邑 *''liɪm ʔˠiɪp̚'', > standard Chinese: Linyi) was a kingdom located in central Vietnam that existed from around 192 AD to 629 AD in what is today central Vietnam, and was one of the ...
(Vietnamese pronunciation of Chinese
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林邑, the precursor to
Champa Champa (Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ; km, ចាម្ប៉ា; vi, Chiêm Thành or ) were a collection of independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of what is contemporary central and southern Vietnam from approximately the 2nd cen ...
). In 137 or 192 AD, he defeated the Chinese prefect and declared himself king of Lin-yi.Higham, C., 2014, Early Mainland Southeast Asia, Bangkok: River Books Co., Ltd., This is considered the official founding of Champa, though Cham legend dates the founding to be much earlier.
Nguyễn Khắc Viện Nguyễn Khắc Viện (5 February 1913 in Hương Sơn – 10 May 1997) was a Vietnamese historian, literary critic, sometime dissident, and advocate of a Vietnamese health exercise dưỡng sinh similar to Yoga. Viện was a party member forme ...
''Vietnam, a Long History'' reprint 2002 Page 107 "... Cù Mông Pass (present-day Quảng Nam and Nghĩa Bình provinces) which Chinese historians called Lin Yi, or Lâm Ấp in ... Under the Gangaraja Dynasty (6 hto 8 hcentury) which comprised nine successive kings, the capital was transferred to "
In 248, he led the Cham in looting and razing
Jiaozhi Jiaozhi (standard Chinese, pinyin: ''Jiāozhǐ''), or Giao Chỉ (Vietnamese), was a historical region ruled by various Chinese dynasties, corresponding to present-day northern Vietnam. The kingdom of Nanyue (204–111 BC) set up the Jiaozhi Co ...
and
Cửu Chân Jiuzhen (Vietnamese: Cửu Chân, Chinese: 九真) was a Chinese commandery within Jiaozhou. It is located in present-day Thanh Hóa Province, Vietnam. Michel Ferlus (2012) and Frédéric Pain (2020) propose that 九真 Old Chinese Old Chin ...
. The Cham then defeated the fleet sent to repulse them, at Bay of the Battle.Maspero, G., 2002, The Champa Kingdom, Bangkok: White Lotus Co., Ltd.,


See also

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History of Champa The history of Champa begins in prehistory with the migration of the ancestors of the Cham people to mainland Southeast Asia and the founding of their Indianized maritime kingdom based in what is now central Vietnam in the early centuries AD, and ...


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