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Banteay Srei

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A small, beautiful sandstone monument in Angkor, Cambodia, built in 967. Episodic relief (relief panels illustrating various aspects of the royal mythology) sculpture first appears on Banteay Srei. The relief revolves around a series of Indian legends dealing with the cosmic mountain Meru as the source of all creation and with the divine origin of water. The chief artistic achievement of its sophisticated architecture is the way in which the spaces between the walls of the enclosures, the faces of the terraces, and the volumes of the shrine buildings are conceived and coordinated. It seems to have been influenced by the architecture of the Hindu Pallava dynasty in southeastern India.

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[Khmer: ‘the citadel of the ladies’]. A comparatively small, but very beautiful monument in pink sandstone to the east of the main group of Angkor in Cambodia, built in 967 by the Brahman Yajnavaraha, preceptor of the king, in honour of Siva. Famous in particular for its elaborate relief decoration, the monument forms an architectural and art style in its own right.

The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983

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