Loli - a temple built by Yashovarman I in 893 on an artificial island 105 × 80 m, in the middle of the bar Indratataka ( Cambodia , Siem Reap province), in memory of Father Indravarman I.
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It is believed that his clan in the line of the mother Indradevi goes back to Mahipativarman , that is, to the Funan.
Architecture
Loli consists of four brick towers of the temple, located on the terrace. Originally, there was a temple fence between the towers, a wall, and the entrances were made through the gopuras , but neither the wall nor the gopours have survived to this day. Today the temple has become a monastery, just as in the IX century it was an ashram.
The towers of the temple retained their decorative elements: false doors , skillfully carved apsaras and two-rolls , framing both real and false doors. The carved sandstone figures on the walls of the temple are, for example, Indra , the god of the sky, on the Ayravate elephant, a multitude of water serpent monsters: macars and many-headed naked .
Notes
- ↑ GeoNames 2005.
Literature
- The general history of architecture: The architecture of East and Southeast Asia until the middle of the XIX century. Publishing House of the Academy of Architecture of the USSR, 1971
- Epigraphic of the East, Volume XVII . Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1966
- Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, Ancient Angkor (Bangkok: River Books, 1999)
- Helen Ibbetson Jessup, Art & Architecture of Cambodia (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004)