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The temple of Angkor Wat is located on a terrace above the city. It consists of three rectangular galleries and all the time up to the central tower. Each gallery has a Gopuram and each side is on the tower at the corners, which forms columns with a central tower. The Space Gallery has dimensions of 187 by 215 meters with pavilions, and has no walls on the outside of the temple. The gallery is opened from the outside and the inside walls have a series of bas-reliefs, depicting large-scale scenes of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

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In the north west corner of the counter clockwise scenes of the battle Lanka, Kurukshetra. On the southern gallery shows only historical scenes with Hindu mythology, the procession Suryavarman II. On the eastern gallery shows some of the most famous scenes in a churning sea of milk, showing 92 asuras and 88 virgins, the serpent Vasuki and Vishnu. It is followed by a scene Vishnu conquers Asuras. In the south-west corner of the stage is much smaller scales, which are little known, but most of the Ramayana or the life of Krishna.

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To the external gallery of the second building of Angkor in the west Vata attached cruciform cloister, known as the modern name of Preah Pauanui (Hall of Thousand Buddhas "). There are many inscriptions relating to the pilgrims, most of which are written in Khmer, but also in Burmese and Japanese. The second level at the top of a large number of Devat depicted on the walls, singly or in groups of four. The second level has the dimensions of 100 by 115 m.

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There are lots of steep stairs, which creates problems to rise to the realm of the gods. This inner gallery called Buck and the entire area of 60 square meters. meter axial gallery is connected to Gopuram with the central and subsidiary shrines located below the corner towers. The roof is decorated with galleries snake bodies ending in the heads of lions. Carved lintels decorate the entrance to the galleries and shrines. The central tower of Angkor wool rises to a height of 43 m and from the ground surface at 65, and rises above surrounding its four towers.

Originally, the shrine of Angkor Vata held a statue of Vishnu, but after the temple was converted to Buddhism, his place was taken by the Buddha. In 1934, George Trouve dug a hole under the central shrine, everything had been looted, but he found the sacred foundations of gold leaf only two meters above ground level.