# Bhagadatta

> Bhagadatta is attested in the mixed Sanskrit-Old Khmer Śrī Canāśa Inscription (K.949), dated 937 CE, as the progenitor of a dynastic lineage associated with Canasapura in Dvaravati, within the bounds of present-day Thailand. Peter Skilling cautions that the evidential base for Cānāśa is unusually narrow. The name is attested in this inscription and in the Bo Ika inscription alone, and in no literary source, and he describes the polity as a mystery that speculation cannot resolve. He adds that old Khorat lay on the routes later taken by Ayutthayan armies marching to the plateau, so the stone found at Ayutthaya may have been carried south at some later date. Given that the inscription was discovered on the Ayutthaya Island, the Japanese scholar Tatsuo Hoshino has argued that Bhagadatta and his three immediate successors more plausibly ruled from Si Thep - referering to as Ayojjhapura in local chronicles - rather than from Muang Sema, which likely functioned merely as a secondary regional center. Hoshino identifies this polity with Gē Luó Shě Fēn, a toponym referenced in the Cefu Yuangui and the New Book of Tang during the 7th century. According to Hoshino, Gē Luó Shě Fēn constitutes a corrupted transcription of Jiā Luó Shě Fú (迦逻舍佛), interpreted as Canasapura, which is believed to have extended its political and economic influence into the western Menam valley under the reign of Pú jiā yuè mó in the 7th century.

*10th-century King of Dvaravati*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Country:** Thailand
- **Status:** unknown
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Bhagadatta is attested in the mixed Sanskrit-Old Khmer Śrī Canāśa Inscription (K.949), dated 937 CE, as the progenitor of a dynastic lineage associated with Canasapura in Dvaravati, within the bounds of present-day Thailand. Peter Skilling cautions that the evidential base for Cānāśa is unusually narrow. The name is attested in this inscription and in the Bo Ika inscription alone, and in no literary source, and he describes the polity as a mystery that speculation cannot resolve. He adds that old Khorat lay on the routes later taken by Ayutthayan armies marching to the plateau, so the stone found at Ayutthaya may have been carried south at some later date. Given that the inscription was discovered on the Ayutthaya Island, the Japanese scholar Tatsuo Hoshino has argued that Bhagadatta and his three immediate successors more plausibly ruled from Si Thep - referering to as Ayojjhapura in local chronicles - rather than from Muang Sema, which likely functioned merely as a secondary regional center. Hoshino identifies this polity with Gē Luó Shě Fēn, a toponym referenced in the Cefu Yuangui and the New Book of Tang during the 7th century. According to Hoshino, Gē Luó Shě Fēn constitutes a corrupted transcription of Jiā Luó Shě Fú (迦逻舍佛), interpreted as Canasapura, which is believed to have extended its political and economic influence into the western Menam valley under the reign of Pú jiā yuè mó in the 7th century.

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## Sources
- [Bhagadatta (of Chanasa)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagadatta_(of_Chanasa))
- [ภคทัตต์ (แห่งรัฐศรีจนาศะ)](https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A0%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%95%E0%B9%8C_(%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%AB%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%90%E0%B8%A8%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A8%E0%B8%B0))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18357839)

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