Eastern Baray & Eastern Mebon

The enormous one-time reservoir known as the Eastern Baray was excavated by Yasovarman I. Who marked its four corners with stelae. This basin, now entirely dried up, was the most important of the public works of Yasodharapura, Yasovarman I's capital, and is 7km by 1.8km. It was originally fed by the Siem Reap River.
   The Hindu temple known as the Eastern Mebon, erected by Rajendravarman II, would have been situated on an islet in the centre of the Eastern Baray reservoir, but is now very much on dry land. This temple is like a smaller version
of Pre Rup, which was built 15 to 20 years later and lies to the sounth. The temple-mountain from is topped off by the now familiar brick shrines are dotted with neatly arranged holes, which attached the original plasterwork. The base of the temple is guarded at its corners by perfectly carved stone figures of elephants, many of which are still in a very good state of preservation.
   

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