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Sa Kaeo, Sa Kaeo · 13.8437°, 102.7375°
A red sandstone and laterite temple in Sa Kaeo province built under Udayadityavarman II, important less for its scale than for its stele, inscription K.235 of 1053, which records nine generations of a priestly family serving Khmer kings as royal chaplains and is a primary source for Angkorian dynastic history. The stele was taken to the national museum in Bangkok in the 1920s and damaged by fire in 1960; the site itself served as a refugee camp after 1978 before restoration began in the 1990s.
What follows is the temple’s own traditional account, transmitted through liturgy and local memory. It is recorded here as tradition, not as attested history.
The inscription describes a brahmin named Hiranyadaman being summoned by the king to perform a rite that would make it impossible for the land of the Kambuja to owe allegiance to Java.
coordinates: wikipedia-2026-08-27 · sources retrieved 2026-08-26 · dynasty page: Khmer Empire
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