Through here all comers to the city of Angkor Thom had to pass. There are five entry towers to the city each rising 23 metres and is crowned with four heads, one facing each cardinal direction.
The lower half of each gate is modelled like an elephant with three heads. Their trunks, which serve as pillars, are plucking lotus flowers. The Hindu god Indra sits at the centre of the elephant with an apsara on each side. He holds a thunderbolt in his lower left hand.