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19-JAN-2005

Banteay Srei

East entrance or Gopuram IV, the largest entrance way. They get smaller as you approach the inner shrine. Note pink sandstone and red laterite blocks. The rectangular cuts in the top of the pedment held beams that supported the roof.Indra is god of the east direction. Also god of rain and sky andone of the most populare Khmer deities.

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