Shridravya

Qi-zhang-mo is the name recorded in the Chinese Tongdian for a ruler of the Tou-he kingdom , commonly identified with Dvaravati, who is placed in the first half of the 7th century. Thai legend separately preserves a ruler of Nakhon Pathom of the same period named Shridravya (, ). without naming him. Where houses in the first account are roofed with tile and their walls painted, in his the roofs are of grass. Lin Ying and Huang Jiaxin suggest an immediate prompt for the request: in 647 the Qurykhan of the northern steppe had presented a hundred fine horses, which Taizong selected and named himself and which the envoys from the dependency may have seen at court. The missions of 638, 640, 643, 647 and 649 are the only five recorded from the polity in the Zhenguan period, and none is recorded at any later point under the Tang.

Thai legend

The Thai account survives in a local fable of Miang kham and is transmitted in fragmentary and confused form. Rather than standing as an independent tradition, the story of Shridravya is interwoven with that of a much later figure, the 9th-century ruler Phraya Pan , in the Legend of , which makes his historical plausibility difficult to assess.

The fable recounts that the king of Isanapura in Chenla sought reconciliation in 637/638 by offering his daughter in marriage to Shridravya, then a prince under the ruler of Nakhon Pathom, after which Shridravya took the throne of Nakhon Pathom. It also implies a succession at Nakhon Pathom in this period, naming first Cakranarayana , identified as the brother of a preceding ruler, and then Shridravya, described not as Cakranarayana's son but as the son of that earlier monarch.

If Shridravya did hold kingship at Nakhon Pathom, modern reconstructions place his reign in the mid-7th century: after Kalavarnadisharaja left for Lavapura in 648 and after the brief rule of Cakranarayana, and before Pu xie qi yao, to whom the embassy of 649 is attributed and who was in turn followed by Pú jiā yuè mó, king of Ge Luo She Fen, whose envoy set out in 656 and reached China in 665, and who came from Si Thep and, on Tatsuo Hoshino's reading, extended his territory south to take in the Nakhon Pathom region.