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“Angkor Wat style prasat dating back to CA 12th”

Prasat Ku Suan Taeng is a Hindu shrine built in brick on a laterite base. The sanctuary is of the Angkor Wat style dating back to ca 12th centuary A.D.

1. Three east - facing brick towers standing in the North - South direction on a single laterite base. Each of them has a single front entrance with false doors on the remaining three sides. The main tower in the middle is the largest, with a square plan and a porch in the front.

2. Two brick libraries on laterite bases

3. A surrounding moat

From an excavation by the Fine Arts Department in 1994, a large number of artefacts were unearthed; for example, lintels dipicting Nataraja - the dancing Siva and the Charming of the Sea of Milk, as well as sandstone antiques, depictia Dikpulaka the direction Gods such as Indra on the Airavata elephant, God of the East, and Yama on a buffalo, God of the South.