BANTEAY SREI TEMPLE & PREAH KHAN TEMPLE

BANTEAY SREI TEMPLE

BANTEAY SREI TEMPLE – A monument of elaborate artistic mastery
Consecrated in 967 A.D Banteay Srei was speculated to have been known earlier as Banteay Serai. Which literally means the citadel of Victory. This was the only major temple at Angkor not built by a monarch; its construction is credited to a courtier named Yajnavaraha who was a scholar and philanthropist and a counselor to king Rajendravarman. He was known to have helped those who suffered from illness. Injustice or poverty Banteay Srei is built primarily in red sandstone. a mesium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable of Angkorian construction, the buildings themselves are miniature in scale these factors have led to its being widely praised as a ‘precious gem’ or the ‘jewel of Khmer art ‘ and perhaps the temple’s modern name, Banteay Srei or Citadel of Women, is probably related to the intricacy of the bas relief carvings of devates found found on the walls and tiny dimensions of the buildings themselves.

PREAH KHAN TEMPLE A sacred sanctuary Hiddo in the jungle

Preah Khan Was Built on the site of Jayavarman VII’s victory over the invading Chams in 1192.
In its heydays. This was the center of a substantial organization with almost 100.000 officials and servants this temple is flat in design with a basic plan of successive rectangular galleries around a Buddhist sanctuary complicated by Hindu satellite temples and numerous later additions with numerous trees and other vegetation growing among the ruins Preah Khan has been left largely unrestrained Preah Khan for the beguiler the romancer and the artist is an entrancing mastery deep in the jungle, Soft and alluring in the twilight made by heavy verdure.


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