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Jayavarman V, Emperor of Angkor, had succeeded …

Years: 1000 - 1000

Jayavarman V, Emperor of Angkor, had succeeded his father, Rajendravarman, when he was only ten years old.

During his early years, the court officials dominated royal politics.

He had studied under the knowledgeable Yajnavaraha, a grandson of King Harshavarman I who in 967 had constructed Banteay Srei, considered the jewel of Khmer art for its very beautiful display of bas-reliefs.

At seventeen (in 975), Jayavarman V had begun the construction of his own state temple, whose modern name is Ta Keo.

The Khmer kingdom’s early so-called “temple-mountains” were made of brick; Ta Keo possibly the first temple of Angkor to have been built completely of sandstone.

It remains unfinished.

Yogisvarapandita, a high priest who will become the minister of Suryavarman I and "receive" the temple from him many years later, says in inscriptions that a lightning strike hit the unfinished building, an evil omen, so the works stopped.

Possibly, work stopped simply because of the death of Jayavarman V, as there was a struggle for succession.

The temple will serve continuously as a cult center until the thirteenth century, and even Yogisvarapandita worships the shrines at the first levels of the temple.

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