Sri Dharmasokaraja I dating history

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Sri Dharmasokaraja I (Thai: ศรีธรรมโศกราชที่ 1), , also known by the alternative names Narapati (พญานรบดี), was a 12th-century monarch of mainland and peninsular Southeast Asia, known primarily from epigraphic and legendary sources. He is mentioned in the Dong Mè Nang Mưo’ng Inscription (K. 766), written in Pali and Old Khmer, as well as in later Thai chronicles, notably the Legend of Nakhon Si Thammarat [th] and the Legend of Phatthalung (ตำนานเมืองพัทลุง). These sources associate him with the polities of Indaprasthanagara, Lavo, and Tambralinga, and portray him as a key figure in the political and religious reconfiguration of southern Thailand during the transitional period. The dynastic style itself bears on the reading of the inscription: George Cœdès excluded Angkor as the donor of the Dong Mae Nang Mueang text on the ground that no Angkorian king took the name Dharmāśoka, and the candidates argued over since have been Hariphunchai and Lopburi. He is traditionally credited with the refoundation of Nakhon Si Thammarat in 1077 and the establishment of a dynastic line that produced two successors bearing the same regnal title.