This colossal complex, which was a sanctuary city, is a standout amongst the most charming in the Khmer domain, both for it's scale and it's remote area. Never exhumed, Banteay Chhmar fits the photo of a lost Khmer city with its destroyed face-towers, carvings, backwoods surroundings and winged animal life flying through the sanctuary. It has a sentimental and revelation feel to it.Banteay ChhmarBanteay Chhmar dates from the late twelfth to the mid 13thcentury and it implies Narrow Fortress. It is thought to have been worked by Jayarvarman II. It was later reconstructed by Jayarvarman VII as a funerary sanctuary for his children and four officers who had been executed in a fight repulsing a Cham attack in 1177.
Like Preah Khan, Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom, Banteay Chhmar initially encased a city with the sanctuary at the heart. No hints of the city that encompassed the sanctuary remain.The sanctuary range covers 2km by 2 and a half km. It contains the primary sanctuary complex and various different religious structures and a baray to its east. A bit loaded with water and a tremendous divider within that encases the focal point of the sanctuary. This bit is still used to present day by local people for angling and day by day errands. A clamoring little market and town limits the east and south east and maybe there has been ceaseless home there since the establishing of the sanctuary.
Inside the bit, a stone rest house and church can be seen. The highlight of Banteay Chhmar is the bas-reliefs, which are practically identical with the Bayon. They portray fight against the Chams, religious scenes and a large group of every day exercises. In parts, the external divider has broke down. On the west side a dynamite multi-equipped Lekesvara can be seen. The sanctuaries focal complex is a disorder of towers, exhibitions, vegetation and fallen stones. Delightful carvings can be seen all through.
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