Amaravati is the northern principality of the older books: the Thu Bồn valley with Simhapura (Trà Kiệu) on the lower river and My Son up the valley behind it, and the old Buddhist capital of Indrapura (Đồng Dương).
By 1200 the court has long moved south to Vijaya, and Đồng Dương is a rich foundation past its political moment (board).
Who he is
- Title
- Cham lords of Amaravati
- Confidence
- low
The campaign board entry notes; English Wikipedia (My Son)
What it holds
- Rice on the lower Thu Bon, the gold of Bồng Miêu, the cinnamon roads from Tra My
- The port at the Thu Bồn mouth (Cua Dai) and Hon Kem Da Dung gorge where lowland trader meets Katu carrier
- Temple lands at My Son and Dong Duong
How things stand that morning
Under Suryavarmadeva; not pinned.
Threats
- The Hai Van road from the north
- Khmer or Viet raids from the sea
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- 1243A pillar inscription of Jaya Indravarman V at My Son, the latest dated record there (English Wikipedia).Depends on: Cham kings still make offerings at My Son. Stopped by: A Cham collapse before then.
Places of note
- Simhapura: Walled seat
- My Son: Dynastic sanctuary
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Temple and site evidence; no named lord.
Primary sources for Champa
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- The Abridged History of Viet, Anonymous (attributed by some to Su Hy Nhan) (about 1377, probably as an abridgement of Le Van Huu's lost history of 1272). The oldest surviving Vietnamese history, a century older than the Complete Annals and in places fuller for the Ly dynasty, which fills its second and third books.
- The Complete Annals of Dai Viet, Ngo Si Lien, drawing on Le Van Huu's Dai Viet su ky (1272) and Phan Phu Tien; continued by Pham Cong Tru and Le Hi (1479; printed 1697 in the standard Chinh Hoa edition). The main narrative source for Dai Viet in 1200, compiled in 1479 from Le Van Huu's lost history of 1272. Read online
- History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Draft Compilation of the Collected Statutes of the Song, Various; the Song huiyao were compiled by the Song state, the surviving draft reassembled by Xu Song from the Yongle dadian in the nineteenth century (the original Song compilations date from the eleventh to the thirteenth century; the surviving extracts were recovered in 1809 to 1820 and printed in 1936). Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. Read online
- Corpus of the Inscriptions of Campa (EFEO and ISAW), Various (the Cham kings and their officers), edited by Arlo Griffiths, Amandine Lepoutre, William Southworth and Thanh Phan (inscriptions of the 4th to 15th centuries; the online corpus from 2012). The online edition of the Cham inscriptions, with photographs, texts and translations, keyed to the C. numbers. Read online
- The Inscriptions of Cambodia, Various (the Khmer kings and their officers), edited by George Coedes (inscriptions of the 6th to 14th centuries; edited 1937 to 1966). The Khmer empire of 1200 is known almost entirely from the great foundation stelae of Jayavarman VII (reigning from 1181), which Coedes edited: the Ta Prohm stele of 1186 (K. Read online
- The Sanskrit inscriptions of Cambodia and Champa (ISCC), Various (Khmer and Cham kings), edited by Auguste Barth and Abel Bergaigne (inscriptions of the 7th to 12th centuries; edited 1885 to 1893). The founding edition of Khmer and Cham Sanskrit epigraphy, public domain and online, which Coedes's later corpus supersedes but does not replace. Read online
Sources and studies
- Mỹ Sơn, English Wikipedia (read)
- OMNIA board notes for the Vietnam and Champa area (a lead, not a source)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.