Chau Say Tevoda
The Chau Say Tevoda ( Khmer ប្រាសាទចៅសាយទេវតា ) is a compact, originally Hindu, flat temple in the immediate vicinity of the historic city complex Angkor Thom ( Cambodia ).
Comparison Thommanon - Chau Say Tevoda
If you leave Angkor Thom through the “ Victory Gate”, two temples are like twins to the left and right of the “Victory Avenue” leading to the Ta Keo : Thommanon and Chau Say Tevoda. The Thommanon was probably built in the early 12th century, the Chau Say Tevoda a few decades later. Both Thommanon and Chau Say Tevoda show a close stylistic relationship to Angkor Wat , so it is plausible that both temples date back to the reign of the Khmer King Suryavarman II (1113 to around 1150).
East of the Chau Say Tevoda, a stone footbridge leads over a cross-shaped terrace to the Siem Reap River. The plates of the footbridge rest on octagonal columns arranged in three rows. The walkway and terrace are younger than the temple and were probably built under King Jayavarman VIII (reign around 1243 to 1295).
In the 1960s, the Thommanon and the west gate of Chau Say Tevoda were carefully restored. Since 2002, restoration work has also been carried out on the other, comparatively dilapidated buildings in Chau Say Tevoda.
Compared to the Thommanon, the Chau Say Tevoda is slightly smaller. Unlike the Thommanon, the laterite surrounding wall, which is still clearly recognizable, frames an area measuring 50 × 40 m. As with the Thommanon, four sandstone buildings are lined up from east to west: the eastern gopura (gate tower), the mandapa (assembly hall), the prasat (temple tower), and finally the western gopura.
However, the Chau Say Tevoda not only has two gopura, but four (as seen from the Prasat exactly in the cardinal points ), and not just one so-called library or sacristy, but two (one north, the other south of the mandapa). The eastern gopura is three-sided; its central gate has a cruciform floor plan with small vestibules and side chambers. The other three gopura are only one-gate; the west has side chambers, the north and south have small vestibules. The flat stone walkways that run from Prasat to the Gopura are probably later additions, like the walkway in the east of the complex. The two libraries, unlike the one in Thommanon, have fallen into serious disrepair.
Most of the excellent reliefs have suffered greatly over the centuries and from vandalism . At least two illustrations of the Ramayana on the south side of the east gate are well preserved : the fight between the monkey king Vali and his half-brother Sugriva and the death of Vali.
Sources and further information
literature
- Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques: Ancient Angkor . River Books, Bangkok 1999, ISBN 974-8225-27-5 .
- Luca Invernizzi Tettoni and Thierry Zéphir: Angkor. A tour of the monuments . Archipelago Press, Singapore 2004, ISBN 981-4068-73-X .
- Nick Ray: Cambodia . Lonely Planet Publications, Victoria 2005, ISBN 1-74059-525-4 .
- Johann Reinhart Zieger: Angkor and the Khmer temples in Cambodia . Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai 2006, ISBN 974-9575-60-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freeman and Jacques pp. 124 and 128.
- ↑ Zieger p. 73.
- ^ Freeman and Jacques p. 129.
- ↑ Freeman and Jacques pp. 124 and 129.
- ↑ Zieger p. 73.
- ^ Freeman and Jacques p. 129.
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Coordinates: 13 ° 26 '43 " N , 103 ° 52' 40" E