PHUM PRASAT TEMPLE
Very nice th century temple located near a th-century pagoda. High 12 m wide, a little over 4 m, of square shape, it is open to the east without corps. The pyramid-shaped roof is intact, the interior walls are virgin of ornaments, but the moulures and skid door frame is beautiful, the upper lintel is decorated with sandstone carved on sandstone. The two large wooden panels of the door are particularly remarkable: the right wing is a goddess with a beautiful Khmer chest suggestive of patina (a witness of faith, probably); the left wing represents a warrior sitting on a lion, in his right hand he holds a sword and in that on the left a lotus flower. An inscription of some lines in Khmer old lines probably dating from the th or th centuries is engraved at the bottom of the left-wing bandstand, it reports that three slaves were offered in sacrifice to the god Sri Sankaramayana by the Mratan Methavi. Until the war, two twin sacred swords probably dating from the th or th centuries were preserved by a Baku (Brahmin descendant of the Angkor priests) in a small house located nearby. Perfectly similar, their handful were ivoire ivory over time, their double-edged blade was engraved with inscriptions wishing victory to the Khmer people. Kept in lacquered wood bags, black and red, the twin swords and their protective Baku have disappeared in the madness of men.
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