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The Devaraja Cult
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Hermann Kulke's The Devaraja Cult, published by Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program in 1978, is a scholarly study of the god-king cult central to Southeast Asian, principally Khmer, sacred kingship. Its authority rests on standard academic publication through a specialist regional studies program and Kulke's standing as a historian of early Southeast Asia. Its limit is age: subsequent decades of epigraphic and archaeological research on Angkor and related sites have refined some specific points a 1978 study could not have incorporated, so a very specific claim about a particular inscription or monument benefits from checking against more recent specialist scholarship, even as the book's broader account of the devaraja concept remains a standard reference.
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Hermann Kulke's The Devaraja Cult, published by Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program in 1978, the top tier reflecting standard academic publication through a specialist regional studies program and Kulke's standing as a historian of early Southeast Asia, notwithstanding that subsequent decades of epigraphic and archaeological research have refined some specific points a 1978 study could not incorporate. NotesScholarly study of the devaraja god-king cult in Southeast Asian, principally Khmer, kingship, 1978.
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AuthorHermann Kulke
PublisherSoutheast Asia Program, Cornell University
Data Paper 108, 1978, translated from Kulke's 1974 German original. Publication Year1978
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names Asia directly: "by Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program in 1978, is a scholarly study of the god-king cult central to Southeast Asian, principally Khmer, sacred kingship."
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Doctrines, 6 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 2 holds, 1 general references.
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