Qualla: Po Nagar https://qualla.com/po-nagar en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/j/t/po-nagar-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Po Nagar https://qualla.com/po-nagar Po Nagar: Introduction https://qualla.com/po-nagar/ Photo credit Michelle, CC BY-SA 2.0. The oldest written record of this place is a story of loss. A stele dated 781 CE records that King Satyavarman restored a temple that had already been ransacked — its sacred mukhalinga broken, its jewels stolen by seaborne raiders described in the inscription as men "completely black and gaunt, dreadful and evil as death." The temple had existed before 781. Before how long before, the stone does not say.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/j/t/po-nagar-wp/w6jt-po-nagar-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Po Nagar: The Goddess of the Country https://qualla.com/po-nagar/ Photo credit Tervlugt, CC BY 3.0. Po Nagar is dedicated to Yan Po Nagar — a name that translates roughly as Lady of the Country, or Lady of the City. She is the presiding deity of the Cham people's homeland, a goddess whose identity gathered other identities to it over the centuries. The Cham understood her throu...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/j/t/po-nagar-wp/w6jt-po-nagar-the-goddess-of-the-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Po Nagar: Raids, Gifts, and the Khmer https://qualla.com/po-nagar/ Photo credit Tu, CC BY 2.0. The steles that survive from Po Nagar read like a ledger of devotion and violence. In 817, the Cham military leader Senapati Par made endowments to the temple under King Harivarman I — gifts of land, wealth, and labor that expressed the political as much as the spiritual authorit...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/j/t/po-nagar-wp/w6jt-po-nagar-raids-gifts-and-the-khmer.mp3 0:06 3 full Po Nagar: What the Towers Hold https://qualla.com/po-nagar/ Photo credit Petr & Bara Ruzicka, CC BY 2.0. The Po Nagar complex sits on three levels on Cù Lao Mountain, rising above the Cái River just north of the modern city. Two rows of towers occupy the highest level. The main tower's central image is a stone statue of Yan Po Nagar, 1.2 metres tall, seated cross-legged and dressed ...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/j/t/po-nagar-wp/w6jt-po-nagar-what-the-towers-hold.mp3 0:06 4 full Po Nagar: Sacred Ground Across Centuries https://qualla.com/po-nagar/ Photo credit Lưu Ly, CC BY 3.0. In the seventeenth century, Vietnamese expansion brought Champa to an end as a political entity. The people who had built Po Nagar were dispersed, their kingdom absorbed. Yet the temple was not abandoned or torn down. Vietnamese rulers incorporated it into their own religious fra...

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