Banteay Srei Temple - Siem Reap

Banteay Srei or Banteay Srey is a tenth century Cambodian sanctuary devoted to the Hindu god Shiva. Situated in the territory of Angkor in Cambodia. It lies close to the slope of Phnom Dei, 25 km (16 mi) north-east of the fundamental gathering of sanctuaries that once had a place with the medieval capitals of Yasodharapura and Angkor Thom. Banteay Srei is fabricated to a great extent of red sandstone, a medium that fits the intricate embellishing divider carvings which are still discernible today. The structures themselves are small in scale, curiously so when measured by the norms of Angkorian development. These variables have made the sanctuary to a great degree mainstream with travelers, and have prompted its being broadly applauded as a "valuable diamond", or the "gem of Khmer craftsmanship.

Banteay Srei is a sanctuary in Cambodia fabricated out of appreciation for female gods, speaking to quality, solidarity, and wellbeing. This pilot is presently managed as an association that gives social bolster, mending expressions, regenerative wellbeing instruction, life abilities building, administration advancement to youthful Southeast Asian ladies affected by sexual misuse in their groups.

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History of Banteay Srey Temple 

Sanctified on the 22nd of April, 967 A.D, Bantãy Srĕi was the main significant sanctuary at Angkor not fabricated by a ruler; its development is credited to a squire named Yajnavaraha/Yajñavarāha, who served as an advisor to lord Rājendravarman II .The foundational stela says that Yajñavarāha, grandson of lord Harṣavarman I was a researcher and altruist who offered the individuals who some assistance with suffering from sickness, shamefulness, or destitution. His student was the future ruler Jayavarman V (r. 968-ca. 1001) Originally, the sanctuary was encompassed by a town called Īśvarapura.

It has been hypothesized that the sanctuary's present day name,Bantãy Srĕi, is because of the numerous devatas cut into the red sandstone dividers.

Yajñavarāha's sanctuary was fundamentally committed to the Hindu god Śiva. Initially, it was conveyed the name Tribhuvanamaheśvara — incredible master of the triple world — in reference to the Shaivite liṅga that served as its focal religious picture. On the other hand, the sanctuary structures seem, by all accounts, to be isolated along the focal east-west hub between those structures found south of the pivot, which are dedicated to Śiva, and those north of the hub, which are given to Viṣṇu.

The sanctuary's present day name, Bantãy Srĕi — fortress of the ladies, or bastion of excellence — is presumably identified with the unpredictability of the bas alleviation carvings found on the dividers and the modest measurements of the structures themselves.[6] Some have theorized that it identifies with the numerous devatas cut into the dividers of the structures

Materials and style 

The sanctuary was rediscovered just in 1914, and was the subject of a praised instance of craftsmanship burglary when André Malraux stole four devatas in 1923 (he was soon captured and the figures returned). The episode empowered enthusiasm for the site, which was cleared the next year, and in the 1930s Banteay Srei was restored in the first vital utilization of anastylosis at Angkor. Until the revelation of the establishment stela in 1936, it had been accepted that the amazing beautification showed a later date than was truth be told the case. To keep the site from water harm, the joint Cambodian-Swiss Banteay Srei Conservation Project introduced a seepage framework somewhere around 2000 and 2003. Measures were likewise taken to anticipate harm to the sanctuaries dividers being brought about by adjacent trees.

Sadly, the sanctuary has been assaulted by stealing and vandalism. At the point when toward the end of the twentieth century powers evacuated some unique statues and supplanted them with solid copies, marauders took to assaulting the reproductions. A statue of Shiva and his shakti Uma, evacuated to the National Museum in Phnom Penh for care, was struck in the exhibition hall itself.

The Sanctuary 

The asylum is entered from the east by an entryway just 1.08 m in stature: inside is a passage chamber (or maṇḍapa) with a corbelled block rooftop, then a short hall prompting three towers toward the west: the focal tower is the tallest, at 9.8 m. Glaize noticed the impression of delicacy given the towers by the antefixes on each of their levels. The six stairways paving the way to the stage were each monitored by two stooping statues of human figures with creature heads; a large portion of those now set up are imitations, the firsts having been