Subsidiary Towers: Prasat Bakhaeng

Site common name	Prasat Bakhaeng
Type of artwork	Architecture
Village	-
Province/City	Angkor
State	Siem Reap
Country	Cambodia
Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree	Lat : 13.423611 Long : 103.856111

History of production	When King Yaśovarman I established Y aśodharapura, or Angkor, as the capital, he made the hill Phnom Bakaeng as the central pivot of the city as well as the center of Khmer empire. The hill is comparable iconographically to Mount Kailaśa, the abode of Śiva. On the peak of the hill, there locates the temple for enshrining the royal Śivalinga of his reign.
Art	Prasat Bakaeng is the stepped pyramidal temple which rests on the living natural rock. The whole complex is made of stone as the living rock is strong enough to support the stone complex which is so different from the former example of its kind. On the top of the base there exist the five main towers arranged in quincunx plan, surrounded by sixty smaller towers. Each of them, strictly faces eastwards, used to enshrine Śivalinga. Total towers, assumes by scholars, would be 108 towers in number which is the number of auspiciousness in Hinduism.
Period	Historical Period
Art period	Bakaeng
Age	10th Century A.D.
Religion	Brahmanism-Hinduism
Sect	Shaivite

Type of License	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
Rights	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
Date of record creation	2015-02-00
Record creator	Chedha Tingsanchali