Samara Vijayatunggavarman was the Maharaja of Srivijaya from 1045 CE.

Evidence

Srivijaya was thought to be destroyed by Chola during the attack in 1025. However, in 1966, a Sri Lanka archaeologist named S. Puranavitana discovered two inscriptions; the Madigiriya inscription and Bolanda inscription.

Madigiriya inscription

This inscription was written during the short reign of Mahinda VI.

Bolanda inscription

This inscription wrote about the story of Adipada Mahendra who had been defeated in a battle. He fled his land and gained protection at Srivijaya which was ruled by Maravijayottungavarman at that time. Adipada Mahendra had a son named Mahendra and a princess who married Maravijayottungavarman. From the marriage, the Maharaja had two children, Sangrama Vijayatunggavarman and Samara Vijayatunggavarman. Mahendra later married with Samara's princess. The inscription also wrote about

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's murder.

History

launched an attack on Srivijaya and captured Maharaja Sangrama Vijayatunggavarman in 1025. Sri Deva took the leadership of Srivijaya from Palembang and restored balance in the government. According to a theory proposed by Puranavitana, in 1044,

was supposedly assassinated when he visited Srivijaya by a Srivijayan prince called Purendara as per the orders of Samara. On the contrary, according to South Indian epigraphs and records, Rajendra Chola I died in Brahmadesam now a part of

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, India. This information is recorded in an inscription of his son, Rajadhiraja Chola I which states that Rajendra Chola's queen Viramadeviyar committed

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upon Rajendra's death and her remains were interred in the same tomb as Rajendra Chola I in Brahmadesam. It adds that the queen's brother who was a general in Rajendra's army set up a watershed at the same place in memory of his sister.

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Bibliography

* S. Paranavitana (1966) "Ceylon and Śrī Vijaya, in Artibus Asiae. Supplementum, Vol. 23, Essays Offered to G.H. Luce by His Colleagues and Friends in Honour of His Seventy-Fifth Birthday. Volume 1:Papers on Asian History, Religion, Languages, Literature, Music Folkfore and Anthropology" Artibus Asiae Publishers Indonesian Hindu monarchs Srivijaya 11th-century monarchs in Asia 11th-century Indonesian people