The Amazing Sword Temple, (Preah Khan)
Preah Khan is a temple which was built from the stone and
grey sandstone which was built by the king Jayavarman VII for celebrating to
the gods in both of Buddhism and Hinduism. This temple was built in the purpose
of great honor to the king father Soyarvaman II since 12th century,
it has many things that make people interesting on, one part of it is the four Colum
which has size 2mx0.6m, may towers and holy sword in the biggest holding tower.
Sometime, historians thought that this temple was built for the king living and
keep waiting for Angkor Thom finished, other things it is a place installation
book or we called library.
This temple was built in the area of Angkor Thom which
located in Siem Reap province nowadays, The engineer and architecture was built
with any temples complex is surrounded by a moat, and its area stretches over a
swatch of land 800 meters by 700 meters, where enclosing area is 56 hectares.
Its decoration seems to swallow the ruins.
The connection of Preah Khan temple is connect to the
northern of Angkor Thom and the east of Preah Khan is lie on Jayataka Baray,
which was built by man-made, the body of water that offers the beautiful shadow
from the temple in the jungle. The wonderful thing in the middle water surface
we see an island that we called Prast Neak Pean, which that case bring human to
wonder why the ancient people can built it in the water like that!
Break the while and we talk on the size and shape of Preah Khan’s architecture was decorated, especially the outside wall, which has five-meter-tall Garudas that are frozen in battle with fighting Naga snakes. There are four gates that allow people traffic into the temple, and each has a causeway over the moat. The main door is the eastern one, which there are the ruins of a small stage for boats, after that we look at two lions which standing guard.
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