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completed in twenty-one years. The famous balustrades along the causeways leading to Angkorthom many headed nagas are gripped in the strong arms of rows of demons and giants, the towers of gateways themselves adorned on all their four sides with massive divine faces. As on his city gateways, so on every side of every 52 towers appears a tremendous sculptured face of a divinitymore than two hundred exactly similar countenances with mysteriously halfclosed eyes and enigmatically smiling lips.
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Fio 18: Four Statues each at four levels of central five towers of Bayon templo
Crowned with jeweled diadems and with ear-rings dangling from their elongated ears, whilst pearl necklaces depend around their necks, each one rise eight feet high. No masterpieces of sculptor anywhere are more
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