- Funan by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... neighboring states, including Chenla, Chentou (in the Chao Phraya River basin), and Phan Rang (in what is now the southern part of Vietnam). In the 270’s and 280’s Funan fought wars in alliance with Champa against what is now the northern part of Vietnam, but it was defeated in these wars. In the sixth century Chenla’s vassalage to Funan ended, and shortly ...
- Kambuja by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... later Khmer states of Land Chenla and Water Chenla (seventh and eighth centuries). Between the ninth and the 12th centuries the feudal empire of Kambuja included territory inhabited by the Khmer and regions settled by the Cham, Mon, and other ethnic groups. The founder of the royal dynasty of Kambuja was Jayavarman II, who reigned from about 802 to 850.During ...
- Southeast Asian art and architecture by Cesar Bishop
... united with the Chen La (or Chenla) kingdom and flourished in the middle area of the Mekong. Its early monuments which anticipate Khmer art are for the most part statues of gods and goddesses whose smooth and gracefully sinuous bodies are clothed in draperies of extreme thinness.Khmer ArtThe late 8th cent. Saw the disintegration of Chen La, and beginning in the ...