Lavo Kingdom

Lavo Kingdom
648–1388
Map of mainland Southeast Asian polities c. 1000–1100 CE
Proposed locations of ancient kingdoms in Menam and Mekong Valleys in the 7th century based on the details provided in the Chinese leishu, Cefu Yuangui, and others.
Proposed locations of ancient kingdoms in Menam and Mekong Valleys in the 7th century based on the details provided in the Chinese leishu, Cefu Yuangui, and others.
Capital
Common languages
Religion
Buddhism (Mahayana, Theravada)
GovernmentMandala kingdom
Monarch 
• 648–700 CE (first)
Kalavarnadisharaja
• 1052–1069
Chandrachota
• 1344–1369
Ramathibodi I
• 1351–1388 (last)
Ramesuan
Historical eraPost-classical era
• Fall of Tou Yuan
647
• Establishment
648
• Tambralinga vassal
927–946
• Fall of Ayodhyapura
946
• Destroyed by Angkor
1001
• Angkor vassal
946–1052
• Reclaimed by Suphannabhum/ Haripuñjaya
1052
• Ayodhya as capital (Xiān)
1082–1351
• Lavapura of Chaliang
1106–1181
• Lavapura of Angkor
1181–1218
• Lavapura of Phraek Si Racha
1218–1351
• Formation of Ayutthaya
1351
Area
• Total
170,000 km2 (66,000 sq mi)
Preceded by		Succeeded by
Syamapura
Dvaravati
Tou Yuan
Duō Miè
Sukhothai
Ayutthaya
Angkor
Hariphunchai
Chaliang
Asadvarapura

The Lavo Kingdom (Thai: อาณาจักรละโว้) was a mandala in the lower Chao Phraya basin from the 7th century until 1388. Its centre was Lavapura until the 1080s, when it moved to Ayodhya (Xiān). Ayodhya and Lavo sent separate embassies to the Chinese court in the late 1200s, so the two may have been distinct states.

Before the 9th century Lavo was one of the supra-regional centres of the mandala-style polities of Dvaravati, with Si Thep, Sema, Phimai and Nakhon Pathom.[1] Climate change and invasion from neighbouring polities reduced several of those centres, and the mandalas of the Menam valley then fell into three groups.[2]: 8  Lavo (modern Lopburi) lay to the east, in closer contact with the Angkorian and pre-Angkorian worlds;[2]: 8  Suphannaphum (modern Suphanburi) to the west, in closer contact with the Mon and Malay worlds;[2]: 8 [3]: 30  and the northern polities, more mixed than either in culture, ethnicity and language.[2]: 9  Meanwhile, the Mun–Chi mandalas allied with Kambujadesa in the Tonlé Sap basin.[4]: 93 

Name

The capital is Lavapura (ลวปุระ) in Indic form, the city of Lava, and Lavo (ละโว้) in Thai tradition; the site is modern Lopburi. Tang dynasty chronicles record tribute from Lavo under the name Tou-ho-lo (堕和罗国). The monk Xuanzang called it Tou-lo-po-ti, a form that seems to echo Dvaravati, and placed it between Chenla and Pagan. By the Song dynasty it was Luówō (羅渦). Puthep Prapagorn assigns the same characters to Xuanzang instead, holding that Lavo was known as Luó-wō-guó (羅渦國) by 629.[5]: 83 

Records of the 13th and 14th centuries render it Luó hú (羅斛), which stands beside Xiān (暹) in Yuan tribute lists and in the compound Xiānluó hú (暹羅斛) adopted after the two were joined.[6]: 65–8  The pairing outlasted the union, and Chinese records treat the two as Xian-Luo thereafter, and sometimes extend the compound to Xian-Luohu-Sumenbang by adding Suphan Buri.[7]: 55–56  The name is older than the Yuan lists. Song merchants record Luó Hú (罗斛) among four polities of the lower Menam basin, beside Zhēn Lǐ Fù (真里富), Róng Lǐ (茸里) and Xún Fān (浔番).[8]: 129 [7]: 55–56 

Chit Phumisak argued that the derivation runs the other way, and that Lavo is the older form rather than a Thai contraction of Lavapura. Old Khmer epigraphy writes the name with the two consonants in cluster, Lvo in the 1022 inscription of Suryavarman I at Lopburi and Lvodayapura under Jayavarman VII. Khmer scribes trained in Sanskrit, he argued, would not have reduced Lavapura to Lvo had the Indic form been the original. He connected the element instead to a Mon–Khmer word for hill or mountain, comparing the ethnonyms ละว้า (Lawa) and ลัวะ (Lawuea) and the Lao place-name ละแว (Lawae). On his reading the Sanskritised Lavapura, and the modern ลพบุรี (Lopburi) formed from it, are later back-formations made once the town had been drawn into the cult of Rama, whose son was Lava. Pali chronicles of the north adopt the Sanskritised form uniformly. Gordon Luce had argued along similar lines that the Lawa once held much of central Thailand as far south as Lopburi, on a proposed link between the seventh-century Lavapuri and the ethnonym Lawa.[9][10]: 369 

History

Dvaravati background

Map of settlements of Dvaravati culture from the 6th to 9th centuries

Mon-speaking populations had been established in what is now Thailand for centuries. Between the 6th and 9th centuries a Theravada Buddhist culture associated with them developed in central and northeastern Thailand. The Mon Buddhist kingdoms that rose in the central plain of Thailand and in what is now Laos were collectively called Dvaravati.[11]: 27 

Rivalry with the Qian and the founding of Lavo: 6th–7th c.

Conflict between the Dvaravati and Qian monarchies is traced to the 6th century. Siddhijaya Brahmadeva of Manohana, commonly identified with Ayojjhapura and further equated with Si Thep,[a] the principal centre of Qiān Zhī Fú[14]: 30 , relocated westward in 590 to establish his authority in the western Menam Valley, in the vicinity of modern Nakhon Pathom.[15]: 11–2  This brought him into conflict with the Brahmanical leadership under Kakabhadra,[12]: 4  who had ruled the polity since 569.[b]

In 629[c] Kakabhadra's son Kalavarnadisharaja commissioned Brahmans to build a new settlement in the eastern valley, south of Si Thep.[15]: 11–4  Following Kakabhadra's death, Kalavarnadisharaja succeeded to power at Nakhon Pathom in 641. He then reduced Tou Yuan (Si Mahosot) to vassal status in 647.[17]: 269 [18]: 15–16  In 648, he transferred the political centre to the newly founded settlement, later known as Lavapura, and formally proclaimed the establishment of the Lavo Kingdom. Some sources put the foundation a century earlier, in 538.[19]: 34 [20][21] Tradition credits him with hegemony over all the major polities of the Menam valley.[d]

No source records a direct war between Lavo and Si Thep in this phase. The Jinakalamali instead describes hostilities between Si Thep and Dvaravati's Nakhon Pathom, held after Kalavarnadisharaja's departure by Anuruddha. In it Dvaravati forces capture the Si Thep king Manohanaraj and carry him off,[12]: 4  after which a puppet monarch was installed at Si Thep.[22]: 125–6 

The Mon polity: 7th–9th c.

Prang Khaek, a Chalukya style complex, built around the 9-10th century.
A plan of Narai's new capital complex of Lopburi ("Louvo" in French sources).

The Northern Thai Chronicles give the founding from another tradition. In them Lavo is founded by Kalavarnadisharaja, who came from Takkasila in 648,[20][21] a year after Dvaravati made Tou Yuan its vassal. He was a son of Kakabhadra, king of Takkasila, a city assumed to be Nakhon Chai Si of Kamalanka,[23][24]: 29 [25] who set the Chula Sakarat era in 638, which the Siamese and Burmese kept until the 19th century.

Stone inscriptions in ancient Mon script from northern and central Thailand indicate that the Lavo and Haripuñjaya mandalas were probably populated by the same group, the "Mon" or another Austroasiatic-speaking people. Dynastic ties kept the two on good terms for the first 300 years.[26]

The only native language attested in early Lavo is Old Mon. The migration of the Tai peoples into the Chao Phraya valley is thought to have taken place during the kingdom's lifetime.[27]: 39 

Theravada Buddhism remained prominent in Lavo, though Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism from the Khmer Empire were also influential.[28] Baker and Pasuk caution that the vocabulary of sectarian affiliation, the term Theravada among it, is a modern coinage, and that the Chinese monk Yijing found in the late 7th century that Hinayana and Mahayana approaches were practised in a mixed way in the region.[29]: 13, 15 

Around the late 7th century Lavo expanded to the north. The Northern Thai Chronicles, among them the Cāmadevivaṃsa, make Camadevi, first ruler of Haripuñjaya, a daughter of a Lavo king. Late in the century the Legend of the Arhat (ตำนานนิทานพระอรหันต์) has Balidhiraja, eldest son of Kalavarnadisharaja and ruler of Sukhothai, march south into the western valley and depose its ruler, while Balidhiraja's elder son Balipatijaya took Lavo about 700.[12]: 3–5 

Little is recorded of how the kingdom worked, and most of what is known comes from archaeology. Local rulership at Lavapura is attested by a Sanskrit inscription on the lotus base of a standing stone Buddha, recovered in 1924 from a mound at the north-eastern corner of the perimeter wall of Wat Mahathat (LB 5; K.577). It records that Nāyaka Ārjava, chief of the people of Taṅgura and son of the Lord of Śāmbuka, erected the image. Cœdès connected Śāmbuka with the Śamvūkapaṭṭana of the Preah Khan inscription (K.908), in a string of towns answering to Lopburi, Suphan Buri, Ratchaburi, Sing Buri and Phetchaburi.[30]: 68–69, 73 [31] Baker and Pasuk give the six as Lavodayapura (Lopburi), Svarnapura (Suphanburi), Sambūkapura, which they place tentatively at Ban Pong, Jaya-Rājapuri (Ratchaburi), Jaya-Simhapuri (Mueang Sing) and Jaya-Vajrapuri (Phetchaburi or Kamphaeng Phet), six of the twenty-five cities to which the image was sent. Their reading of the third name differs from Cœdès's in form and in place, and they put the fifth at Mueang Sing rather than Sing Buri.[29]: 24 

Chenla and the wars in the Menam valley: 7th–8th c.

Prang Sam Yot, showing considerable Khmer influences on the architecture in late 11th century

Isanavarman I (r. 616–637) of Chenla extended Khmer influence into the Menam valley by marriage and by campaign in the 7th century, but exercised no political control there.

During the Sui period (581–618), two sister kingdoms, Zhū Jiāng, identified as a Dvaravati-influenced polity,[32] and Cān Bàn, made royal intermarriages with Chenla. They then fought several wars against Dvaravati Tou Yuan to the northwest.[33] Tou Yuan later became a vassal of Dvaravati in 647,[17]: 269 [18]: 15–16  and known as Lavo in 648. The warfare between Chenla and Dvaravati continued into the Tang period, drawing in Qiān Zhī Fú, Xiū Luó Fēn and Gān Bì.[14]: 46, 54–55  The New Book of Tang groups the three as alike in customs and credits 20,000 warriors each to the first two, 40,000 to the pair, and 5,000 to Gān Bì.[14]: 46, 54–55  Some of these battles may belong to the wars between Lavo and the neighbouring Mon kingdom of Haripuñjaya in the early 10th century.[14]: 36–7 

Tatsuo Hoshino makes the connection from the Chinese side. He identifies the Qian Tuo Huan that fought Chenla in the New Book of Tang with the Tuo Huan the same work lists among Dvaravati's vassals, and both with pre-Khmer Lopburi.[14]: 36  Many wars were fought between Chenla and Lopburi in the Tang period, and some of them, he suggests, may be the conflicts between Lopburi and Haripuñjaya recorded in the Jinakalamali, the Munlasatsana and the Chamadevivamsa.[14]: 36 [e] He also observes that the Tang sources name Chenla's wars with Huan Wang before those with Lopburi, and reads that order as implying the eastern front was the graver of the two.[14]: 37 

In addition to Lavo, Chenla also encountered Línyì to the northeast.[33] Through royal connections, Cān Bàn thereafter became a complete vassal of Chenla,[34]: 27, 35  until its disintegration in the late 7th century,[17]: 123 [14]: 40  after which it came under Wen Dan.[14]: 40  The Chenla power struggle that led to the kingdom's dissolution also diminished its power in the Menam Valley.[35]

The Ban Wang Pai inscription (K. 978), found in Phetchabun province, names a Bhavavarman as the son of a king of Si Thep. Some scholars have suggested he is Bhavavarman II rather than Bhavavarman I (r. 580–598), on letter forms that may put the inscription after 627.[36]: 20 

Arrival of the Tai peoples: 7th–9th c.

Image of Siamese mercenaries in Angkor Wat. The Siamese would later form their own kingdom and become a major rival of Angkor.

Modern Thai historians hold that the Tai peoples originated in northern Vietnam and Guangxi province in China.[37] Tai speakers were living in northern mainland Southeast Asia by the 8th century.[38] Five linguistic groups emerged: the northern Tai in China (ancestors of Zhuang); the upland Tai people in northern Vietnam (ancestors of the Black, White and Red Tai); the Tais in northeastern Laos and bordering Vietnam (ancestors of the Tai of Siang Khwang and the Siamese in Ayutthaya); the Tai in northern Laos; and the Tai west of Luang Prabang, northern Thailand and in the adjoining parts of Laos, Yunnan and Burma.[11]: 26 

Tai settlement in present-day Thailand may have begun as early as the 7th or 8th century, along the trans-Mekong trade route running west from northern Champa, where they met Dvaravati in the Menam valley.[14]: 38, 49–50  Several petty kingdoms were formed, such as Gān Bì in the vicinity of Savannakhet,[14]: 46  Wen Dan in the Chi River basin,[14]: 38–9, 53  Cān Bàn in the upper Pa Sak valley,[14]: 41, 45  and Xiū Luó Fēn to the west of Chenla.[14]: 40  They were present also in the inland Champa kingdom of Zhān Bó and in Wen Yang (文陽) district, Changzhou Prefecture (長州 or 裳州) of the Tang dynasty in modern Sakon Nakhon and Nakhon Phanom in Thailand and Khammouane province in Laos.[14]: 49–50  The Wen Yang district is identified as the present-day Thakhek in Laos.[14]: 50  Given their troop strengths, 30,000 for Xiū Luó Fēn, 20,000 for Gē Luó Shě Fēn and 5,000 for Gān Bì, they likely participated in the conflicts between Chenla and Dvaravati in the early 7th century, aligning with the faction that offered the greatest advantage.[14]: 54–5  Following the decline in power of the Mon Dvaravati at Kamalanka in the 8th century,[15]: 60  the Daic-speaking people of Qiān Zhī Fú gradually absorbed the remaining Dvaravati principalities of the western Menam valley. The Chinese called that polity Gē Luó Shě Fēn, a corruption of Jiā Luó Shě Fú or Canasapura, centred at Si Thep.[14]: 38–9  Meanwhile, the eastern valley at Lavo remained under the Dvaravati monarchs until they fell under Tambralinga and Angkor in the 10th and 11th centuries, respectively.

Ayojjhapura and the decline of the Qian: 8th–10th c.

After Chenla fragmented early in the 8th century, Si Thep was the principal power left in the Menam basin. Chinese records place Qiān Zhī Fú (千支弗) there,[39] its first tribute to the Chinese court falling about 656–661.[14]: 30, 32  From the 8th century the sources add Gē Luó Shě Fēn (歌羅舍分), placed west of Dvaravati and tentatively identified with Qiān Zhī Fú on a phonological match with Jiā Luó Shě Fú (迦逄舍佛), which Tatsuo Hoshino centres at Si Thep.[14]: 32–4, 38–9 

Two readings of Si Thep's reach differ over whether Lavo fell inside it. On Hoshino's, the change of name marks Si Thep spreading across much of the lower valley, Nakhon Pathom included, while Lavo to the east stayed within the older Dvaravati network.[14]: 38–9  Hiram Woodward reaches a comparable picture from art history rather than the Chinese texts, and from a different premise, that Si Thep itself lay within Wen Dan. A Si Thep strong enough to dominate the 8th century may, he suggests, have held Lopburi, which Hoshino's reading places outside its sphere, together with Nakhon Pathom, U Thong and Khu Bua.[4]: 93  He offers this as a possibility rather than a finding, the alternative being that the Dvaravati features at Si Thep came from a peaceful movement of monks before Wen Dan's rise. He also reserves judgement on Hoshino's identification of the Chinese toponyms that the first reading rests on.[4]: 92–3 

A ruler called Padumasūriyavaṁśa appears at Indaprasthanagara in the central Menam valley by 757. Later traditions give him Lavo and Sukhothai, and a reach east across the Khorat Plateau as far as Mueang Talung in present-day Prakhon Chai district.[40]: 8  The Ayutthaya Testimonies place Indaprasthanagara east of Sankhaburi, in the Phraek Si Racha region of the central valley.[41]: 4–5  The Ratanabimbavamsa treats it and Ayojjhapura as separate and hostile, Adītaraj of Ayojjhapura, which several scholars identify with Si Thep,[13] besieging Indaprasthanagara in the early 9th century after the death of its great ruler.[42]: 51 

Through the 8th and 9th centuries the eastern Chao Phraya valley was likely centred on Ayojjhapura, as attested in the Pali chronicle traditions, notably the Ratanabimbavamsa and the Jinakalamali.[13][43] Lavo is commonly read as its southern frontier fortress, subordinate but strategically placed.[13]

After Adītaraj's campaign the Northern Chronicle and the Ratanabimbavamsa name a ruler for Lavapura. Bhūpati (ภูบดี) of Vajraprākārapura (วชิรปาการปุระ, modern Kamphaeng Phet), on good terms with both Ayojjhapura[16]: 101 [42]: 52  and Ngoenyang Chiang Rai,[16]: 104  sent a son whose regnal name is not recorded to rule there.[16]: 101  The Ayutthaya Testimonies make Vajraprākārapura itself a foundation of one of Padumasūriyavaṁśa's descendants,[41]: 11  and have Lavapura under Indaprasthanagara from his reign onward.[40]: 8 

The Si Thep line itself continued. The Śrī Canāśa inscription (K.949) dates the reign of Bhagadatta from 859.[44]: 122  Its decline may have begun in the mid-10th century. A Khmer inscription of 946 records victories by the Angkorian king Rajendravarman II over Rāmaññadesa (lit. 'the land of the Mon') and Champa,[45] and in 949 he appointed a kinsman, Vāp Upendra, governor of Rāmaññadeśa, which points the same way.[46]: 3546  Woodward suggests that Jayavarman II, founder of Kambujadesa, who came to the throne in 802, may have cultivated allies in the Mun–Chi basin to counterbalance Si Thep in the Pa Sak River basin to the west. He offers this as an alternative to his other reading, in which Jayavarman II defeated Wen Dan outright.[4]: 93 

Ayojjhapura appears to have been largely abandoned by the 13th–14th century.[47] Many Thai scholars attribute the decline to environmental factors, particularly climatic change, together with epidemic disease.[1] The displaced population is thought to have moved mainly to Lavapura and Ayodhya (Xiān),[13] both taken into the Ayutthaya Kingdom in the 14th century.[48] After Ayojjhapura declined the central Thai city-states appear to have reorganised into two mandalas, Lavo (modern Lopburi) in the east and Suphannabhum (modern Suphan Buri) in the west.[3]

Tambralinga, Angkor and Pagan incursions: 10th–11th c.

Lavo was attacked from several directions during the 10th and 11th centuries. Fighting with Haripuñjaya to the north in the early 900s left it open to annexation by Tambralinga from the south in 928. It was then devastated by Angkor from the east in 946 and 1001, raided by the Chola in 1030,[49]: 143  and invaded by Pagan from the west in 1058 and 1087.

Battles between Lavo and Haripuñjaya are recorded from 925 to 927.[26] According to the O Smach inscription, King Rathasatkara or Trapaka (Thai: อัตราสตกะราช/ตราพกะ) of Haripuñjaya moved south two years after his accession to seize Lavo. The Lavo king, Uchitthaka Chakkawat or Ucchitta Emperor (อุฉิฎฐกะจักรวรรดิ/อุจฉิตตจักรพรรดิ), moved northward to defend. The war drew in Tambralinga to the south, whose King Jivaka or Suchitra (พระเจ้าชีวก/พระเจ้าสุชิตราช) took the chance to occupy Lavo.[50] Both Mon kings then fell back north to hold Haripuñjaya, but Rathasatkara was defeated and lost the city to the Lavo king. Failing to retake it, he moved south and settled at Phraek Si Racha (present-day Sankhaburi district).[26] The episode appears in several chronicles, among them the Jinakalamali and the Cāmadevivaṃsa.[50]

After Jivaka took Lavo's capital, Lavapura (ลวปุระ), he appointed his son, Kampoch (กัมโพช), as a new ruler and enthroned the ex-Lavo queen as his consort.[51] Jivaka seized Suphannabhum within a few years of taking Lavo. Two princes of Suphannabhum, Thamikaraj and Chandrachota, fled to Haripuñjaya.[52]: 191  Kampoch of Tambralinga tried and failed to annex Haripuñjaya the following year.[51] He also failed to take another northern city, Nakaburi (นาคบุรี). Further battles between Haripuñjaya and Lavo followed.[51]

After a nine-year civil war at Angkor, Tambralinga lost Lavo to Suryavarman I, whose troops destroyed Lavo and several polities of the upper Mun valley. His defeated rival Jayavīravarman withdrew not to Lavo but eastward into what is now northeastern Thailand, an inscription of 1008 recording his donation to the god Vimāya at Phimai after the loss of Angkor.[30]: 138–139 [53] After the capture the population is said to have been taxed heavily, which may have prompted an exodus, and Lavapura was left abandoned.[54]

Lakshmipativarman recovered it, and his appointment as governor by Suryavarman I is conventionally dated to 1006. His career is set out in the Khmer inscription K.1198, a stele of 116 lines dated 1014 and now in the National Museum of Cambodia, whose Sanskrit portion was published only in 2019. It is from this text that the course of the campaign is known. The king charged him with the government of Rāmanya, a form of Rāmañña denoting the Mon, "who occupy the western region", and its Sanskrit verses lament that Lavapura had been reduced to jungle by the defects of the Kali Age, its long-abandoned western districts to be restored and repopulated. U-tain Wongsathit and his co-authors read the text as one campaign moving from Angkor by way of Phanom Rung and Phanom Wan, where a rebellion by the Vau and Tampāṅ families was put down in 1011, to Lavapura. On that reading the conquest falls between 1011 and 1014 rather than in the opening years of the century.[30]: 137, 139–141 [55][50] This marks Lavo's formal incorporation into Angkor. Walailak Songsiri rejects the chain of identifications on which the reading of Rāmanya rests. [56]: 3  The earliest attested Mon form, rmeñ, occurs in an inscription of Kyansittha of Pagan dated 1102, nearly a century after Suryavarman I, and the Middle Mon rman was probably taken from Pali by way of Haripuñjaya, while the ramañ of the pre-Angkorian Prasat Bassac inscription (K.71) is a slave's name.[56]: 3  She adds that inscriptions at Lavo about ten years later record accommodation between Brahmanical and Mahayana practice, that none describes a war leaving the country deserted, and that no Angkorian inscription of the whole period records a western campaign on the scale of the wars with Champa.[56]: 3  Lavo at that time was governed by a Cambodian prince, as a part of Angkor's vassal state.[11]: 29  Angkor had sought power over Dvaravati's Lavo since Rajendravarman II, whose victory over Rāmaññadesa in 946 is recorded in the K.872 Prasat Boeng Vien inscription.[54]

To the north the Suphannabhum prince Thamikaraj was enthroned king of Haripuñjaya and, with Suphannabhum's help, marched south and took Lavo in 1052;[52]: 532  his younger brother Chandrachota was appointed Lavo king.[52]: 532 [57]

Six years after Chandrachota's accession, in 1058, Anawrahta of Pagan invaded the Menam valley intending to annex Lavo.[58] Chandrachota avoided a second devastation by marrying his queen's elder sister to the Pagan king, and the two became allies. The Burmese Hmannan Yazawin is read differently, as having Lavo submit in the course of the same campaign.[59]: 18–9 [16]: 37–9  Chandrachota's son, Narai I, became his successor who then moved Lavo capital to Ayodhya in the 1080s.[60] During Narai's reign, Lavo experienced another invasion by Pagan in 1087 but the conflict ended with the negotiation.[61]: 40–42  Narai died with no heir in 1087. This caused a 2-year Ayodhya civil war among the nobles, in which Phra Chao Luang won.[62]

Tai settlement in the valley had meanwhile been under way for some time. The Tai Yuan or Tai Chiang Sean (ไทเชียงแสน) from the north, which later evolved into Lan Na, began to settle in the lower Menam Valley around 861, increased in influence in Lavo,[27]: 39  and began to resist Angkorian control in the mid-11th century.[11]: 28  Lavo is said to have been seized by Siamese from the western Menam Valley in the early 11th century[63] and by the Tai king Phrom of Yonok in 1106, according to the local chronicles.[64] A tribute mission to China in 1115, during the reign of Sri Thammasokkarat, has been taken to show that Lavo was independent at that time.[27]: 39  Walailak gives 1115 and 1155 as Lavo's last two missions to the Song court.[56]: 7 

Ayodhya as capital: 1080s–1350

Wat Phanan Choeng, founded in Ayodhya during the reign of Sai Nam Peung (r. 1111–1165)

Ayodhya, previously known as Mueang Wat Derm or Mueang Nong Son, was founded in 934 by a monk from Mueang Bang Than (บางทาน) in present-day Kamphaeng Phet.[61]: 30 [f] Most of its inhabitants are supposed to have come from Ayodhyapura after its fall in 946, and from Lavapura after Angkor destroyed that city in 1001.[13] That population, and a site commanding the Chao Phraya River trade routes, brought rapid growth.[65]: 5–7  In the 1080s Ayodhya became the new capital of Lavo.[62] The Xiān (暹) of Chinese and Đại Việt texts between 1149 and the foundation of the Ayutthaya Kingdom in 1351 may be Ayodhya rather than Sukhothai, Suphannabhum or another of the early Siamese polities.[66]

Xiān is recorded as having attacked Champa,[67] Dān mǎ xī (單馬錫, taken to be Tumasik, or Singapore),[68]: 39  Xī lǐ (昔里),[7]: 48–9  Ma-li-yü-êrh (Melayu),[69]: 140  and Samudera Pasai Sultanate on Sumatra[70] before the formation of Ayutthaya Kingdom. A bas-relief of about the same period at Angkor Wat shows mercenaries of the Khmer army labelled syam-kuk, perhaps "of the land of Siam". Their ethnolinguistic affiliation cannot be established, though many scholars have taken them for Siamese.[71]: 70 

After two centuries of devastation the region was at peace in the 12th century. Artefacts and ruins of the 12th and 13th centuries indicate migration from the surrounding regions, Khmer from the east, Mon from the west and Tai–Mon from the north. Several modern mandalas then emerged, such as Suphannabhum, Phrip Phri, Sukhothai, and Ayutthaya.[72]: 272–3 

Lower Menam Valley in the 12th and 13th centuries, showing the key polities under Siamese Chen Li Fu (numbers 1 to 16) and its smaller settlements (grey pogs), as proposed by Walailak Songsiri.[56]: 18 

After Phra Chao Luang (พระเจ้าหลวง) won the two-year Ayodhya succession struggle of 1087–1088, he was enthroned as the king. He had no male heir, and married his only daughter to Sai Nam Peung (สายน้ำผึ้ง),[3]: 103–4  son of Kesariraja who was of Mon's Chaliang and Tai's Chiang Saen lineages and served as the Lavapura king at that time.[61]: 21, 23  Their descendants, later known as the Uthong (Lavo) dynasty, continued to rule Ayodhya until the Ayutthaya Kingdom formation in 1351.[73]

At Lavapura itself the throne stood vacant, or was held by unrecorded kings, from 1087 until 1106, when Kesariraja of Si Satchanalai took the seat. Angkor moved to recover its influence in 1181, when Jayavarman VII appointed his kinsman Narupatidnavarman to govern Lavapura.[74] Due to this political pressure, a Tai ruler Sri Thammasokkarat (ศรีธรรมโศกราช), who was also from Si Satchanalai, fled to Nakhon Si Thammarat.[27]: 38–39  Sri Thammasokkarat married a princess of Dhanyapura (Dong Mae Nang Mueang in the present-day Nakhon Sawan province), and their descendants ruled Tambralinga until the late 13th century.[75]: 290–2  Zhou Daguan, who travelled to Angkor with a Yuan embassy in 1296–97, reports in The Customs of Cambodia that the Siamese were influential in Lavo's Lavapura and present in large numbers in the Angkorian capital of Yaśodharapura.[76][77] Cœdès had recorded a son of Jayavarman VII holding Lopburi under the style "prince of Lavo", and Songsiri reads such arrangements as evidence of kinship between ruling houses rather than of administration.[56]: 7 

Angkorian authority in the basin was not uniform. Walailak Songsiri holds that Chen Li Fu to the west stood outside it, and reads the Khmer titles and Indic royal names borne in the western basin as court usage adopted for dealings with China rather than as marks of subordination.[56]: 7–8, 12  She questions the reading of Lavo's own subjection as well, and notes that in the study Cœdès published with Jean Boisselier in 1965 he no longer derived Suryavarman I from Nakhon Si Thammarat and treated Lopburi art as descended from Dvaravati work rather than imported from Cambodia.[56]: 2–3 

The Preah Khan inscription names Lopburi Lavodayapura.[78]: 53  How far Angkorian authority reached is disputed. The hospitals (arogyasala) and fire houses built along the roads out of Angkor reach no further west than Prachin Buri. That suggests the same inscription's dispatch of the image Jayabuddhamahanatha to six Menam polities was cultural diplomacy rather than direct control.[29]: 24  Angkor recovered Lavo after Sri Dharmasokaraja I left, and the Prasat Tor inscription has Jayavarman VII defeat a monarch of the west in 1189/90 or 1195/96.[79]: 24  At Mueang Sing in Kanchanaburi, archaeologists suggest that only the master craftsmen came from Angkor or from Lavodayapura, the rest of the work being local.[80] Songsiri takes the radiating Avalokiteśvara images from Mueang Sing, Mueang Sa Kosi Narai and Lopburi to be Angkorian work or the work of court-trained craftsmen, and places the arrival of Angkorian religious forms in the western basin in the second half of the 13th century, after Jayavarman VII's reign.[56]: 17 

Prang Sam Yot was built during this period.[81]: 170  However, Lavapura was probably taken back by a Tai royal from Phraek Si Racha (แพรกศรีราชา; present-day Sankhaburi) in the 13th century.[3]: 109  Angkor's power waned in this period amid weak rule and feuding at the capital.[82]: 120  The same turmoil is given as the background to Sukhothai's emergence in 1238.[83]

Wars with Haripuñjaya continued through the 12th century. Lopburi, then held by a Mon–Tai clan from Chaliang, marched north several times without success.[2]: 13  At the end of the century Lopburi again fell under Angkor.[2]: 19–20  Lavo, as Lo-hu, joined Ny Wang in an embassy to China in 1289[69]: 144  and sent one alone in 1299,[84]: 221–222  though Baker and Pasuk count four Lavo missions across those eleven years rather than two.[7]: 51  In 1349 Xiān and Lo-hu were joined, and the Chinese named the new polity Xiānluó (暹羅).[85]: 102  The notices of that year run both ways, one having Xiān submit to Luó hú and another having Xiān bring Luó hú to submission, a discrepancy Baker and Pasuk attribute to copying error.[7]: 55–56  Xiān might also refer to the Suphannaphum Kingdom of Suphanburi Province.[86]

Formation of the Ayutthaya Kingdom: 1351

Before the union each of the four towns of the lower plain had sent missions to China in its own name, Ayodhya as Xian, Lavo as Luohu, Suphan Buri as Sumenbang and Phetchaburi as Pichaburi.[7]: 55  In 1351 Uthong and Borommarachathirat I of Suphannabhum (modern Suphan Buri) founded the Ayutthaya Kingdom on an island where the Chao Phraya, Lopburi and Pa Sak meet, though Baker and Pasuk have only the Lopburi running beside the site at the time.[7]: 44  Uthong became king of the city. Borommarachathirat I then took Ayutthaya from Uthong's son Ramesuan in 1370, and Ramesuan retreated to Lavo. In 1388 Ramesuan retook the city from Borommarachathirat I's son Thong Lan. Borommarachathirat I's nephew Intharachathirat took Ayutthaya back for the Suphannaphum dynasty in 1408. The Uthong dynasty was then purged and reduced to a noble family of Ayutthaya until the 16th century.

There are many theories about Uthong's origin. Baker and Pasuk count at least seven, and note that beyond his role as founder the chronicles record little about him but the year of his death.[7]: 56–57  Chula Chakrabongse thought him a descendant of Mangrai.[87]: 28  Van Vliet's chronicles, a seventeenth-century work, stated that King Uthong was a Chinese merchant who established himself at Phetchaburi before moving to Ayutthaya. Tamnan Mulla Satsana, a sixteenth-century Lanna text, states that King Uthong was from the Lavo Kingdom.

Lavo became a major Ayutthayan stronghold after the kingdom's foundation in the 14th century. The Instructions Given to the Siamese Envoys Sent to Portugal of 1684 has Lavapuri, or Lopburi, abandoned around the 15th century.[88]: 127–8  Narai made it a royal capital in the mid-17th century and resided there some eight months a year.

Society and economy

Archaeological survey counts Lopburi among the secondary centres of the 107 Dvaravati-associated urban sites recorded in present-day Thailand, below Nakhon Pathom, Suphanburi and Phraek Si Racha.[89]: 303–312  The Tongdian credits Dvaravati with six markets, and Lopburi is one of the places proposed for them.[90]: 221 

Chinese accounts of the 13th and 14th centuries treat Lavo as the agricultural base of the lower valley. The Xin Yuanshi contrasts the dry ground of Xiān with Lavo's broad and well-watered plain, on which Xiān was said to depend. It describes the method of cultivation. A large river ran from Xiān through Lavo to the sea, and each summer sea water pushed up into its inland reaches, so that seed sown at that season rose with the water, a foot of growth for every foot the river rose, and ripened as the water fell. Seed was sown but the ground was not ploughed, which the account gives as the reason grain was plentiful and cheap. The same source states that Lavo and Xiān had both formed part of Funan.[6]: 68  The Ming shi-lu preserves the contrast in another form, recording that Xiān was later divided into two countries, Lavo and Xiān, and that the barren soil of Xiān left it dependent on Lavo's level plain for supplies; Baker and Pasuk attribute the poor soil to the marshy and saline conditions of the lower delta, noting Ma Huan's report of 1433 that the land was wet and swampy.[7]: 47 

Wang Dayuan's Daoyi Zhilue of 1351 adds a description of custom. Men and women wore the hair in a topknot, wrapped the head in cotton and wore a long robe; salt was boiled from sea water and liquor fermented from glutinous rice; and the ruler had ordered that cowrie shells serve in place of coin. It records that decisions in matters of money, of grain and of travel rested with the women, whom it describes as more decisive than the men. The people of Xiān are said to have followed the same customs.[6]: 69–70  Its entry on Lavo carries the agricultural contrast as well, calling the paddy fields level and well watered and saying that the people of Xiān rely on them.[68]: 40  Yoneo Ishii read the salt-boiling as an indication that Lavo reached the sea at some point, and grouped it with Xiān and Su-men-bang as mainland instances of the upstream–downstream coastal state modelled by Bennet Bronson.[68]: 40 

Chit Phumisak, writing within a Marxist framework, held that Lavo had the most developed system of bound labour among the small states of the basin, though he judged it a modest polity beside those of the Khorat Plateau south of the Mun River. He attributed the scarcity of standing remains to the site itself. Lopburi has never been relocated in a thousand years, so successive building has covered what came before, leaving little beyond the sanctuary at San Phra Kan and Phra Prang Sam Yot. He also treated Lavo as a centre of learning and of trade, citing the tradition that Phaya Ruang of Sukhothai and Phaya Ngam Mueang of Phayao studied under one teacher there, and a riddle in which a hoe is identified by its origin in Lavo, which he took as a sign that the city supplied iron implements across the region.[10]: 378–9 

List of rulers

Before 11th century: Lavapura as seat

Following the annexation of Funan in 627, Chenla, Cān Bàn, and Zhū Jiāng allied via royal intermarriage. They then waged several wars against Tou Yuan to the northwest and Línyì to the northeast.[33] However, in 647, Tou Yuan instead became a vassal of Dvaravati,[17]: 269 [18]: 15–16  and was then re-established as the Lavo Kingdom the following year.[20][21]
NameReignNotes
EnglishThai
Chá-shīlì Pó-mò-pó-nà 察失利 婆末婆那c. 644As king of Tou Yuan
The Tou Yuan Kingdom was annexed by Dvaravati's Kamalanka in 647 and was refounded as the Lavo Kingdom in 648.
Kalavarnadisharajaกาฬวรรดิษฐ์648–700Founder. Moved the seat from Nakhon Pathom (Takkasila) to Lavo. Also son of Takkasila's king, Kakabhadra.
Balipatijaya[12]: 4–5 [g]ภาลีบดีชัย700–?Grandson of the previous. Son of Balidhiraja, king of Sukhothai
Nāyaka Ārjava[30]: 68–69, 73 อารชวะc. mid 8th centurySon of the lord of Śāmbuka (Nakhon Pathom). Last recorded ruler of the line linked by descent to Nakhon Pathom. His own dates are approximate, and no ruler is named again until Vasudeva.
Under Padumasuriyavamsa[40]: 8 ?–800
Unknown800–861?
Vasudeva[27]: 39 วาสุเทพ861–?Tai Yuan monarch from the north.
name unknownLate 9th c.Son of the ruler of Kamphaeng Phet[91]: 101–3 
Uchitthaka Chakkawatอุฉิฎฐกะจักรวรรดิ?–927Later became King of Haripuñjaya from 927 to 930.
During the wars against Haripuñjaya in 927, Lavo's capital Lavapura was captured by the King of Tambralinga.[50]
Sujita[92]สุชิตราช927–930Also King of Tambralinga. As a tributary state of Tambralinga.
Kampoch[92]กัมโพช930–946?Son of the previous. As a tributary state of Tambralinga.[26][51]
In 946, the Angkorian king Rajendravarman II won over Rāmaññadesa (lit. 'country of the Mon', potentially Dvaravati's Si Thep).[45]
Under Indaprasthanagara[16]: 27–9 c. 950sUnder the rule of Sindhob Amarin of Phraek Si Racha
Sundaradeśanā[h]After 996–?From Tchai Pappe Mahanacon at Phraek Si Racha
Around 1005, Lavo was sacked by the Angkorian usurper Suryavarman I and was then almost abandoned.[55]
Lakshmipativarman[50]ศรีลักษมีปติวรมัน1006 or 1011–?[i]As the governor, appointed by Suryavarman I[50]
Laparaja[52]: 208–10 ลพราชPeriod of constant wars against Haripuñjaya.
Unknown[52]: 211 ?–1052?Son of the previous.
Following the reign of Suryavarman I, Angkor experienced a series of attempted rebellions between 1050 and 1080.[84]: 138–139 [93]: 104  In 1052, Lavo passed out of Angkorian control when it was conquered by Haripuñjaya.[63]
Chandrachotaจันทรโชติ1052–1069Prince of Suphannabhum who fled to Haripuñjaya after Suphannabhum was seized by Tambralinga between the 920s to 940s.
Regent1069–1082
Around the 1080s, the capital was shifted southward to Ayodhya by King Narai I, the old capital was then renamed Lopburi[58]

After 11th century: Ayodhya as seat

This epoch is known as the Pre-Ayutthaya, or Ayodhya, period. The polity centred in Ayodhya was referred to as Xiān in Chinese and Đại Việt texts, whereas the polity located in Lopburi continued to be referred to as Lavo.
Xian rulers
Seat: Ayodhya		ReignLavo rulers
Seat: Lopburi		Reign
EnglishThaiEnglishThai
Narai Iพระนารายณ์1082–1087Narai Iพระนารายณ์1082–mid 1080s
two-year power struggle following the invasion by PaganUnknown[94]mid 1080s–1106?
Phra Chao Luang[j]พระเจ้าหลวง1089–1111King Shridhammatripitaka of Chiang Saen seized Lopburi in 1106.[64]
Sai Nam Peungสายน้ำผึ้ง1111–1165Kesariraja[64]ไกรศรราช1106–1110s
Xiān – Đại Việt trade relations established in 1149.[95]Sri Dharmasokaraja I[81]: 170 ศรีธรรมโศกราชที่ 11110s–1117[27]: 39 
Dhammikarajaพระเจ้าธรรมิกราชา1165–1205Lavo sent tribute to China in 1115.[96]: 19  Then became under Angkor in 1117.[27]: 39 
Xiān sent tribute to Đại Việt in 1182.[95]Sri Jayasinghavarman (Suryavarman II)กัมรเตง อัญ ศรีชัยสิงหวรมัน1117–1150[93]: 118 
Uthong IIพระเจ้าอู่ทอง1205–1253Lavo gained independence and sent tribute to China in 1155[2]: 12 
Jayasenaพระเจ้าชัยเสน1253–1289Pra Poa Noome Thele Seri?[h]พระพนมทะเลศรี1150–1156[k]
Suvarnarajaพระเจ้าสุวรรณราชา1289–1301Sri Dharmasokaraja II[27]: 39 ศรีธรรมโศกราชที่ 21157–1180[l][27]: 39 
Xiān began to invade Angkor and Melayu in the 1290s.[97]: 211 [98]: 90 During the reign of Jayavarman VII (r.1181–1218),[m] Angkor regained Lavapura.
Xiān sent tributes to China five times during 1292 to 1299.[99][100]Nripendravarman (Indravarman II)[n][74]นฤปตีนทรวรมัน1180–1218[o]
Dhammarajaพระเจ้าธรรมราชา1301–1310Pha Mueang (Srindrapatindraditya)?ผาเมือง?1218?–?
Baramarajaพระบรมราชา1310–1344Lavo gained independence following the weak rule at Angkor in the 1280s.[101]
1313–1315 Xiān invasion of Champa[67]Phraek Si Racha king (unknown regnal title)1283–1319
Xiān sent tributes to China in 1314, 1319 and 1323.[68]: 39 Lavo sent five tributes to China between 1289 and 1299.[29]: 23 
Ramathibodi I (Uthong V)
(Also the first king of Ayutthaya Kingdom)		พระรามาธิบดีที่ 11344–1369Maternal grandfather of Ramesuan[2]: 61 1319?–1351
Ramesuanราเมศวร1351?[p]–1388
After Ayutthaya Kingdom was officially established in 1351, Lavo was annexed into Ayutthaya in 1388.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Manohana has been identified by Sukanya Sudchaya with Ayojjhapura,[12]: 4  the city which is equated with Si Thep by Pensupa Sukkata.[13]
  2. ↑ According to the chronicle, Manit Vallibhotama (มานิต วัลลิโภดม) dated the enthronement of Kakabhadra's successor, Kalavarnadisharaja, to 641 CE.[15]: 12  From this calculation, Kakabhadra's reign is estimated to have commenced around 569 CE, as the text attributes to him a rule of 72 years over Takkasila.[16]: 3 
  3. ↑ The Northern Chronicle states that the city of Lavo's Lavapura took 19 years to complete in 648, thus, the construction might have begun in 629.
  4. ↑ As says in the Northern Chronicle that several polities in the Menam valley were under his control. Those including, Davaraburi (ทวารบุรี; potentially his former seat at Nakhon Pathom), Santanaha (สันตนาหะ; Suphan Buri region), Ase (อเส; Phraek Si Racha region), Kosambi (possibly Gān Bì in the Chinese sources), Sawangkaburi, Nagendhara (นาเคนทร; potentially Chiang Saen), and Sukhothai.[16]: 25 
  5. ↑ Hoshino reads the Cantonese of Qian Tuo Huan as Goh Toh Wun or Kin Toh Wun, which he takes for a rendering of Candapura or Kandapura, while the nou of the fuller form Nou Tuo Huan yields Lavo, so that the whole would be something like Lavo Chandahan. The final character is romanised both huan and yuan, which is why the same polity appears as Tuo Huan and as Tou Yuan.[14]: 36, 54, 68 
  6. ↑ Calculated from the text given in the chronicle: "สิ้น 97 ปีสวรรคต ศักราชได้ 336 ปี พระยาโคดมได้ครองราชสมบัติอยู่ ณ วัดเดิม 30 ปี"[61]: 30  which is transcribed as "...at the age of 97, he passed away in the year 336 of the Chula Sakarat. Phraya Kodom reigned in the Mueang Wat Derm for 30 years...".
  7. ↑ The sources say Balidhiraja overthrew the former ruler at Nakhon Chai Si and assigned his younger son, Sai Thong Som, as the new ruler and then enthroned his elder son, Balipatijaya, as the new king of Nakhon Luang. See the interpretation on Nakhon Luang at Pra Poa Noome Thele Seri.
  8. 1 2 In case of Tasoo Nacora Louang or Yassouttora Nacoora Louang mentioned in the Du Royaume de Siam and Instructions Given to the Siamese Envoys Sent to Portugal (1684) is identified with Lavo
  9. ↑ The date 1006 follows the secondary literature. Inscription K.1198, dated 1014, first records him receiving land at Madhyadeśa in 1009 and places his appointment to govern Rāmanya after the suppression of a rebellion in 1011, which would put his governorship of Lavapura between 1011 and 1014.[30]: 139–142 
  10. ↑ Lavo noble with unknown origin
  11. ↑ According to the Ayutthaya Testimonies, during his reign over Mueang Phraek's Singburi and Phrip Phri between 1169 and 1205, he undertook a week-long religious observance in Lavapura. This suggests that his authority extended over Lavapura until it was ultimately lost to Angkor during the reign of Jayavarman VII (r.1181–1218).[41]: 46–7 
  12. ↑ Possibly evacuated to Tambralinga.[27]: 39 
  13. ↑ Potentially 1210s, during the late period of Pra Poa Noome Thele Seri.
  14. ↑ Appointed by Jayavarman VII (r.1181–1218)[74]
  15. ↑ Succeeded his Angkorian father, Jayavarman VII, who died in 1218.
  16. ↑ After his father, Ramathibodi I, was enthroned as the King of Ayutthaya.

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