Jaya Paramesvaravarman II

{{short description|King of Champa (d. 1254)}}

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| succession = King of Champa

| reign = 1220–1254

| coronation = 1220

| full name = Angsaraja of Tumpraukvijaya

| predecessor = Khmer occupation

| successor = Jaya Indravarman VI

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| death_date = 1254

| death_place = Vijaya, Champa

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Jaya Paramesvaravarman II, born Prince Angsaraja of Turai-vijaya, was the king of Champa from 1220 to 1254. He was the grandson of Jaya Harivarman I, but was raised in the court of Jayavarman VII. He attained the rank of Yuvaraja in 1201, led the Khmer Empire's attack on Dai Viet in 1207. Following the Khmer voluntary evacuation of Champa in 1220,Maspero, G., 2002, The Champa Kingdom, Bangkok: White Lotus Co., Ltd., {{ISBN|9747534991}}{{rp|80–81}} in 1226, Angsaraja took a coronation ceremony (abhiseka) at the city of Vijaya, declaring his regnal name of Jaya Parameśvaravarman "reign with the single parasol over the state of Champa."{{Cite journal|last1=Lepoutre|first1=Amandine|date=2013|title=Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campā, IV: Les inscriptions du temple de Svayamutpanna: contribution à l'histoire des relations entre les pouvoirs cam et khmer (de la fin du XIIe siècle au début du XIIIe siècle)|journal=Journal Asiatique|volume=301|issue=1|pages=205–278|doi=10.2143/JA.301.1.2994464}}

As king he restored irrigation works, ruins, and lingas.{{cite book|last= Coedès|first= George|authorlink= George Coedès|editor= Walter F. Vella|others= trans.Susan Brown Cowing|title= The Indianized States of Southeast Asia|year= 1968|publisher= University of Hawaii Press|isbn= 978-0-8248-0368-1}}{{rp|171,182}} He also made great donations of rice fields and slaves of many different contemporary backgrounds, such as Cambodian (kvir), Cham (campa), Chinese (lov), Siamese (syaṁ), Paganese (vukāṁ), to the temple of Po Nagar, Nha Trang.{{citation|last=Golzio|first=Karl-Heinz|year=2004|title=Inscriptions of Campā based on the editions and translations of Abel Bergaigne, Étienne Aymonier, Louis Finot, Édouard Huber and other French scholars and of the work of R. C. Majumdar. Newly presented, with minor corrections of texts and translations, together with calculations of given dates|publisher=Shaker Verlag|pages=179–180}}

In 1233/34 Paramesvaravarman installed an image for Svayamutpanna in Phan Rang. He offered war prisoners and trophies to the God of Śrīpatīśvara at the sanctuary of Svayamutpanna. The splendors he donated include 9 captured Khmers, 22 Siamese, one Paganese, and a Khmer male elephant.{{Cite journal|last1=Griffiths|first1=Arlo|last2=Lepoutre|first2=Amandine|last3=Southworth|first3=William A.|last4=Phần|first4=Thành|date=2009|title=Études du corpus des inscriptions du Campa III, Épigraphie du Campa 2009-2010. Prospection sur le terrain, production d'estampages, supplément à l'inventaire|journal=Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient|volume=95-96|issue=|pages=435–497|doi=10.3406/befeo.2008.6118|url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02099528/file/befeo_0336-1519_2008_num_95_1_6118.pdf }}

In 1252, nonstop territorial growth by Champa caused the Vietnamese king Tran Thai Tong to retaliate. In the process, he captured Jaya Paramesvaravarman II's concubine, Bo La Gia, and took other prisoners as well.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jskyi00bspcC |title = A History of Vietnam: From Hong Bang to Tu Duc|isbn = 9780313296222|last1 = Chapuis|first1 = Oscar|year = 1995| publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}