Phạm Dương Mại I

Fan Yang Mai I or Pham Duong Mai I (Chinese: 范陽邁, Middle Chinese: buam’-jɨaŋ-maɨjh/mɛ:jh) was briefly the king of Champa, an area populated by the Cham ethnic group in present-day Vietnam. He overthrew the previous dynasty and seized the throne in 420, following years of internal trouble. According to the Chinese Book of Jin and Book of Song, after launching an unsuccessful raid in Tonkin, he requested investiture from China in 421. He died in the same year.^[1]

Fan Yang Mai
King of Linyi
Reign	420–421
Predecessor	Manorathavarman (Fàn Wéndí)
Successor	Phạm Dương Mại II
Died	421

His name means "Prince of Gold", and before his death, the Chinese Court recognized him as the King of Champa. He was succeeded by his son Tou, who assumed his father's name.^[2][3]

Bibliography

• Coedès, G. (1968), The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

References

1. Coedès, George (1975). Vella, Walter F. (ed.). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-824-80368-1.
2. Maspero, Georges (2002). The Champa Kingdom. White Lotus Co., Ltd. p. 39. ISBN 978-9-74753-499-3.
3. Higham, Charles (2014). Early Mainland Southeast Asia: From First Humans to Angkor. Cambridge University Press. p. 324. ISBN 978-6-16733-944-3.

Preceded by Manorathavarman (Fàn Wéndí) ?–420	King of Champa 420–421	Succeeded by Fan Yang Mai II 421–446