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Temples, Templars, and Ta Prohm Tangles
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  • 1. Kingly architect behind the city’s original grand temple foundations
  • 3. Vast Khmer Hindu temple complex transformed into Buddhist masterpiece
  • 4. Intricately carved horizontal supports bridging temple doorways
  • 5. Enigmatic Khmer temple renowned for massive stone faces staring enigmatically
  • 7. Fragrant blossom indigenous to Cambodia, often seen in temple adornment
  • 9. Celestial maiden carved in bas-relief, guardian of ornate temple walls
  • 13. Khmer term for 'towered shrine,' pinnacle of temple architecture
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  • 2. SRANG Sacred royal baray once used for ritual ablutions in Angkor
  • 6. Specialized pottery tradition contemporaneous with Angkorian civilization
  • 8. Architectural term describing finger-like projections on Khmer lintels
  • 10. Pertaining to the empire responsible for polished sandstone sanctuaries
  • 11. Rare Jain spiritual figure sculpted in Cambodian temple art
  • 12. Temple swallowed by creeping strangler figs and kapok roots
  • 14. Mythic multi-headed serpent, protector of Khmer sacred waterways
  • 15. Defensive water-filled trench symbolizing cosmic ocean in temple design

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