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The Forgotten King Who Built Angkor: Jayavarman II
Before Angkor Wat, before the Bayon, before the god-kings of the Khmer Empire, there was a single man who united warring principalities under one sword. Jayavarman II is not as famous as Suryavarman II or Jayavarman VII, but without him, there would be no Angkor at all. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace his journey: his years at the court of the Sailendra dynasty in Java, the sacred ritual on Phnom Kulen that declared him a chakravartin or universal monarch, and the founding of the first Khmer capital at Mahendraparvata. They explore the shadowy history of the ninth century, the Sanskrit…
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