Indravarman

The Indravarman line gathers the last Varman kings of Angkor, the final Khmer rulers named in the temple inscriptions. Indravarman II, the Buddhist son of Jayavarman VII, ruled until 1243 and saw Champa break away while Sukhothai seized western provinces.

Jayavarman VIII, who reigned from 1243 to 1295, turned back to Shaivism, defaced Buddhist images and converted the Bayon into a temple of Shiva; in 1283 he bought peace from a Mongol invasion by paying tribute. His son-in-law Indravarman III seized the throne in 1295, made Theravada Buddhism the state religion, and received the Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan at Angkor between 1296 and 1297.

Indrajayavarman ruled from 1308 to 1327, and Jayavarman IX from 1327 to 1336. Jayavarman IX is the last Angkor king documented on the monuments; later chronicles take up the story with a new, legendary line.