For guy. Learn german with d w any time any place. Whether with joe joe and your friends i make stuff to. Or with friends all over the world online and interactive. German to go and. Learn german for free with d w. The camero culture originated in the northwestern part of present day cambodia the first command dynasty was founded here in the nineteenth century. Three hundred years later jayaraman the seventh rebuilt the capital on the site of his victory over there come a place drenched with the blood of his enemies and named it tong. Today a great city of encore time could be described as a forest of stone and tangled in a forest of trees this last city very for many centuries is spread out through six square miles of jungle. A traveler from one thousand nine hundred one writes i have found the place where palaces one story the seat of mighty kings long since forgot these towering slabs of rock now one with the jungle where the work of human hands an army of roots creep over and around them like tentacles even the plants seek to destroy. The king of death known to the brahmans as shiva who would throw his enemy to the animals to be devoured appears to have foreseen that men would build palaces and temples as a lasting memorial to their greatness. To demolish these monuments he devised the destruction like the ruinous figtree that nothing can withstand. Jayaraman the seventh came to rule over a devastated country the capital had been razed to the ground the fields leaked out and most of the Irrigation Systems destroyed his new temple city was laid out on traditional command lines the central Temple Mountain lies within a wall surrounded by a moat broad dykes decorated with stylized cobras cross over the water the snakes body is held aloft by fifty four giants gods and demons on either side of the city gate. Jayaraman the seventh built on core tom within the boundaries of the ancient capital of the canary empire the power and wealth of the commanders stemmed from a special combination of natural advantages and religious ideas. The commanders made full use of abundant Water Supplies wild woods and lakes well stocked with fish to develop their culture the remains of complex Irrigation Systems are clear evidence of their technical prowess these systems allow them to harvest rice three times a year. The temples of encore are all surrounded by wide moats symbolizing ancient mythological oceans in the center of the earth stands the mountain of nehru poll of the forces of the universe and seat of the gods the temple symbolizes this mountain. The Irrigation Systems were also used for the religious ceremonies held in the hundreds of temples that. In the eleventh century was the central shrine of the canary capital here to the path leading to the pyramid a representation of the Holy Mountain passes over a reservoir of water. Great skill an art history are displayed in the reliefs on the walls and doorways of this temple. Close by the socalled kings terraces cover an enormous area three hundred meters long and fourteen meters wide wooden buildings once stood here. The king would have watched ceremonies and parades from this Vantage Point and this is where he would have received official guests and settle disputes between his subjects. The diary the Chinese Traveler and twelve ninety six gives us an impression of court life under the command monarch. When the king leaves the palace grounds soldiers march at the front of his retinue the minister in princes ride on elephants accompanied by more than one hundred gold patent parasols. Behind them comes the king standing on an elephant is priceless sawed in his hand. The tasks of his elephant are incased in gold more than one hundred white sunshades with handles and knobs of gold are held around the king. Girls from the palace accompany the procession around three to five hundred of them dressed in floral robes with Fresh Flowers a man. More girls follow carrying lances and shields. Then come the wives and concubines of the king carried either in letters or a carriage or seated on horses or elephants. Jayaraman the seventh was the first buddhist king of cambodia he saw himself as the living buddha at the end of the twelfth century he ordered the building of the central temple and uncle aton the day on his religious status and social and military achievements illustrated in reliefs around the temple last. Detail scenes from the everyday life of the canary people correspond perfectly with the Chinese Travelers reports. Rice is cooked in an earthenware pot and the sauce is prepared on an earthenware stove the rice is served on ceramic or copper plates from china the source is brought to the table in leaves rolled together to form a small cup when this cup is full nothing will drip out of it spoons are also fashioned out of these leaves to scoop up liquid food and convey it to the mouth after the meal they are thrown away he continues in this country its the women who do the trading there are no shop premises but instead each of them spreads out a mat on the ground everyone has their own appointed place i was told that they have to pay the mandarin to hire a patch. Small purchases are paid for in rice cereals or chinese articles then come textiles only major transactions involve payment in gold or silver naturally the king did not admit to have his great victories and battles in more lies in stone and proclaim his fame on staleys. Ascended into the heavens above the field of battle he eclipsed the beauty of the moon and stars the princes of the sky and sharman as brightly as the rising sun. That his gaze every hostile army would flee and tara turning away its face like a young brown good fortune like a shameless and practiced court is clung readily to the breast of this hero. The magnanimity of this ruler is demonstrated by his recording not only his victories but also his great defeat at the hands of the camel army in eleven seventy seven the camp people from the country to the north now the non successfully resisted the expansionist incursions of jayaraman the seventh. The architecture of the temple of day on is quite exceptional. The forty five metre high tower in the center is surrounded by forty nine smaller towers from which a hundred and seventy two gigantic faces of buddha gaze outwards in all directions that they on is not only the seat of the gods but also a manifestation of the kings own divine power station to North South East and west. The Comerica Temple grounds were cities in themselves chronicles described how hundreds of wooden buildings stood between essential shrine and its surrounding walls. These housed the priests and their assistants. According to one account eighteen high priests two thousand seven hundred forty officiants two thousand two hundred two assistant priests and six hundred fifteen dancing girls served in one single shrine and a vast store of treasure was piled up in the shrine five tons of gold plated thirty five. Forty thousand six hundred twenty pearls four thousand five hundred forty precious stones nine hundred sixty seven veils of chinese silk. 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