He thus manipulated Po Rome's female diviners to tell the king to fell a sacred trunk of an ironwood tree that protected the Champa kingdom in order to restore the health of the Vietnamese royal consort Bia Ut.
Legend has it that Po Rome was subsequently abandoned by the protective deities of Champa, and was as a result defeated and captured by a Vietnamese invading army (1651).
[2] After the invasion, which cost Champa its northernmost territory, Phik Cak was elevated to the throne in 1654 under the name Po Saktiraydapaghoh.
[3] He was ordained by the Nguyễn ruler and obliged to send tribute to his court in Kim Long (present Huế).
The Cham Mangbalai manuscript, which gives cryptic and metaphorical characterizations of the Cham kings, mentions a king Po Nasuor, supposedly the same as Po Saktiraydapaghoh, and provides an ambiguous opinion: "Then arrived a man comparable to the white elephant, without protection, who only strikes with the trunk and the feet.