Queen indra devi biography

Buddhist queen of the Khmer Empire

Indradevi (Khmer: ឥន្ទ្រទេវី; fl. 1181) was a queen of the Khmer Empire through her marriage to king Jayavarman VII (r. 1181–1219).

Reportedly, she influenced affairs of state through her spouse, particularly in favor of Buddhism.

Queen indra devi biography in hindi

She was also active as a poet, and as a professor.

Life

She was the daughter of ‘kshatriyas, amongst the elite of the royal family’, and the elder sister of queen Jayarajadevi, the first queen of Jayavarman VII.

She and her sister were well-educated Buddhists. Indrani later stated that their father was ‘Ja … ’, descended from ‘Rudravarman’ and a woman entitled ‘queen’, and their mother was a descendant of Rajendradevi.

Before her brother-in-law became a king, he was often absent, and Indradevi, who was a Buddhist, comforted her sister with the teachings of Buddhism and are said to have ‘initiated [Jayarajadevi] into the peace and tranquillity of the teachings of the Buddha, away from the fire of tor