BAKONG TEMPLE

BAKONG TEMPLE 

It located on the south of  Rolous temples which were built by king Indravoroman 1 in 881.It is a high temple on the three story temple plate form to install Tevaraja linga named Indrasavara which gave the individalism.The outer wall of temple was made of laterite  with 850 meters long and 50m width,but infortunately some part were damage covering with the forest.There is a 60m width moat around the temple,but now its dry of water.The east one is still watering.There are many small temple around the big one made of grey stone with the beautiful -lively embroidery.The middle temple is a mountain with five stories and stare from each direction, but the one on the east is in better condition among the four direction on the east pediment,there are giant statues, monkey king archering and the monkey troops remembering Prah leak.On each story,there were sceptres detailing Brahmanist tale,unfortunately the were nearly damage by the very long age and the nature.According to khmer history after his reign 877 King Indravoroman 1 move the city to hariharea lay (rolous city)where was located by king Jayavoroman 2.Beside building 300meters and 800meters Baray Indratadak on the north of the city which becoming the rice field now, the king built bakong temple which was the first mount temple with sandstone as the symbole of the city lining to the sea.when the visitors climb the tap of the temple, they feel as if they are on the paradise because the national here was built before Angkor wat.The structure of Bakong took shape of stepped pyramid, popularly identified as temple mountain of early Khmer temple architecture. The striking similarity of the Bakong and Borobudur temple in Java, going into architectural details such as the gateways and stairs to the upper terraces, suggests strongly that Borobudur was served as the prototype of Bakong. There must have been exchanges of travelers, if not mission, between Khmer kingdom and the Sailendras in Java. Transmitting to Cambodia not only ideas, but also technical and architectural details of Borobudur, including arched gateways in corbelling method.