Cambodia - BANTEAY SREI (2of7) [EN]

Facing east, Banteay Srei is arranged in three concentric enclosures, each offset slightly towards the W. These are approached, from the E, by a 67m-long causeway, but there is no trace of the usual earth bank that would have marked the limits of the town around the temple -only one spacious outer gopura opening onto the causeway marks the the eastern boundary. Possibly, a wooden palisade formed the outer enclosure, which would probably have been about 500m square.

The outermost (third) enclosure measures 95 x 110m, with a laterite wall and gopuras on the E and W. Inside this is a moat divided by two causeways on the E and W. The two inner enclosures are much closer together, measuring 38 x 42m and 24 x 24m, and the space between them taken up almost completely by six 'long galleries', two longer ones on the N and S sides, four shorter flanking the gopuras on the E and W.

The innermost (first) enclosure had a brick wall, with a single gopura on the E and on the W. However, the central entrance of the latter was closed to create a shrine and entry was on either side. A raised terrace at its centre carries the three sanctuary towers, arranged in a N-S line, and a mandapa connected to the central tower by an antarala. Two 'libraries' in the NE and SE corners complete the ensemble.

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Education

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• Cambodia
• Kampuchea
• Khmer
• Banteay
• Srei
• Tribhuvanamahesvara
• Kulen
• Mountains

[tajmaishu]

And where is he now?? In the HELL i guess!!

[mickeyyang17]

Haknomara F. Sisowath - great ! In the 12th Century, the angkor temple pre-Industrial City of khmer known to King Jayavarman. I really enjoyed watch this video, thank !