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Phnom Bakheng Hill - Cambodia

Phnom Bakheng Hill - Cambodia

When the temple was built, there used to be an outer enclosure that surrounded the hill. There were four gopuras at the cardinal points at the foot of the hill.

Phnom Bakheng is a temple built on a hill of the same name, where the first city at Angkor was established. This gives its state temple on Phnom Bakheng special significance. It was to here that Yasovarman I moved his capital from Roluos. His capital city, called Yasodharapura, was larger than Angkor Thom, which came later, and was centred around the hill of Phnom Bakheng.

The design of the temple of Bakheng borrowed elements from the Bakong which was built 20 years earlier. Both are step pyramids of ascending square terraces. We do know that work on the temple began at the end of the 9th century. The lingga in the central sanctuary was dedicated around 907AD, while construction work continued. The temple was called Yasodharesvara, after its patron deity, which means Lord who Bears Glory. In 928 the temple was abandoned, only to be briefly rehabilitated in 968 by Jayavarman V.

When the temple was built, there used to be an outer enclosure that surrounded the hill. There were four gopuras at the cardinal points at the foot of the hill. Today only their foundation can be traced. Stairways lead up from the east, north and west gopuras, but not the south, probably because (as with most Angkor temples) the work was never fully completed. The east entrance was the main one, and here, one can still see the pair of guardian lions. The pyramid temple is 13 meters high, consisting of five terraces. The pyramid is not exactly centered, but set slightly to the west. At the base of the pyramid are 44 brick towers set in groups of 2, 3 and 4 each. On the terraces are another 60 small towers, with pairs flanking the stairway. On the summit are another five towers each 1.6m high and set back slightly to the west. In total, there are 108 towers, corresponding to a sacred number in Hinduism and Buddhism.

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