Indradevi

Indradevi, chief queen of the Khmer king Jayavarman VII around 1200, was a polymath of royal rank whose Sanskrit verse survives on the Great Stele of Phimeanakas: 102 stanzas of nearly flawless poetry honoring the king and, above all, her late sister, Queen Jayarajadevi. Credited alongside her sister with deepening the king's devotion to Buddhism, she endures as one of the rare women of the ancient Khmer world whose own words still speak.

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