Preah Palilay

Tower like haven went before by a porch and passageway gopura 

Haven of the Preah Palilay sanctuary 

Name:Preah Palilay, Prah Palilay 

Date:thirteenth century King:Indravarman II or Jayavarman VIII Location:North of the Royal Palace fenced in area 

Nearby:Royal Palace, Tep Pranam 

Found a couple of hundred meters North of the Phimeanakas set in a tranquil wilderness condition is the Preah Palilay, a Buddhist sanctuary situated towards the East. 

Since a stele with establishing data was never discovered, it is not known with sureness when the sanctuary was fabricated. It is expected that the structures were worked in the thirteenth century and that the sanctuary and the gopura were not worked in the meantime. 

Patio and walkway towards the sanctuary 

An all around saved 30 meters in length porch with seven headed Naga balustrades lies East of the sanctuary. At the front of the patio were two gatekeeper lions, of which one is cleared out. 

From the sanctuary a walkway leads towards the gopura, the passage door to the sanctuary. Around midway the walkway is a little wooden structure containing a situated Buddha picture set on a pediment out of stone pieces. The extensive stone Buddha in the "Calling the Earth to Witness" mudra is of a later date. 

Gopura entrance building 

The Preah Palilay asylum is encased by a laterite divider 50 meters in length and 50 meters wide. The Eastern divider contains a gopura entrance working with a cruciform floor design and a solitary pinnacle in the middle. The extensive focal passage is flanked by two littler passageway entryways. 

The gopura's pediments contain a situated Buddha, a leaning back Buddha and delineations of a few Buddhist stories, including the account of the Buddha stifling the elephant Nalagiri, portrayed in two scenes. The main model demonstrates the seething elephant assaulting the Buddha, the second demonstrates the elephant curbed and stooping down before the Buddha. Another figure demonstrates a scene from the Vessantara Jataka, where the Buddha gives away his two kids, in this way showing the uprightness of philanthropy. 

Additionally forms demonstrate delineations of Indra on the three headed elephant Airavata, and Varuna, the Hindu God of the sky, water and the seas. The gopura building was reestablished utilizing the anastylosis technique in the 1930's. 

The smokestack tower like asylum 

Behind the gopura is the sanctuary over a 6 meter high base. A stairway on every one of the four sides prompts the best. A couple of extensive trees before the pinnacle have been chopped down in 2009 to shield it from the developing tree roots. 

The sandstone landmark formed like an extensive stack tower has a passageway and vestibule on each of its four sides. Its pediments are enhanced with etched delineations of Buddhist scenes. Within the sanctuary is loaded with rubble and extensive stones and not effectively available.