Banteay Srei: The amazing and stunning temple complex in Angkor (Part – 2)

By Asad Russel – 

After Part – 1
At the Banteay Srei what to see:
For the innovative and archaic a mix is the style of the Banteay Srei. With the red sandstones largely it is built, for the enclosure walls only used with laterite and brick and some other elements of structural. Although is unique the coloration of the Banteay Srei, to become the norm was later f other shades the sandstones.

To the entrances in comparison are large the pediments, in a gabled shape of sweeping. On the pediments whole scenes appear for the first time, while look backwards on looped garlands the kalas and with the central figures the lintels. Dvarapalas the guardian and also are old fashioned the colonettes. Deeply sculpted and rounded figures in every available surface almost the covering decoration. In parts of Preah Vihear is seen also the style.

Towards the east is oriented the Banteay Srei like most of the other Khmer temples. For the Isvarapura outer wall is that all remains the fourth eastern gopura, 500 meters square approximately, of wood made may have been which.

Shows Indra the eastern pediment of the gopura, with that direction who was associated. With the third enclosure connects the gopura on either side of the corridors with the remains a 67 meters causeway. Oriented north to south are the galleries of this causeway north and south, to the north halfway there is one and to the south halfway there are three of the third gopura in front on each side a further one along with.

95 by 110 meters is the third enclosure, to the east and west in the laterite with gopuras. In situ is of the eastern gopura neither pediment, nearby on the ground there is one, in Paris’s Guimet Museum is the other while. To the east and west by causeways into two parts divided by a moat which is now dry is occupied within the third enclosure most of the area, of 38 by 42 meters has a wall of laterite of the second succeeding closure.

The inner enclosure brick wall has collapsed now which is a square of 24 meters, isolated the first gopura leaving, while have collapsed largely the second enclosure, to the north and south there is one each and to the east and west there was two each which  filled the galleries of laterite. Shows Siva Nataraja of the east gopura the eastern pediment. To from a sanctuary was enclosed of the west gopura the central part, to either side being with access, of the inner enclosure there are the buildings between the gopuras, of the northeast and southeast corners in each a library, and on a 0.9 meter high a T-shaped platform set the sanctuary in the center.

In the temple the most decorated parts extravagantly besides being, the most successful restored also have been these, the small scale of them and of their sandstone by the durability helped. To visitors was off limits the entire first enclosure as of 2005.

By the sandstone, brick and laterite are the libraries. Feature Shiva both the pediments of the south library’s, on the summit with Shiva shakes Mount Kailash the Ravana to the east, at him shooting an arrow the Kama the god of love has the west pediments.

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