Banteay Srei is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, located in the Angkor region of Cambodia, about twenty kilometres from the main temples. It was not built by a king but by Yajnavaraha, a Brahmin counsellor of Rajendravarman II and Jayavarman V, which is unusual among the monuments of the area. The temple is small but famous for the quality of its carving in pink sandstone, with intricate relief scenes from Hindu epics, and for its delicate decoration. Its name means citadel of women or citadel of beauty. French scholars rediscovered it in the early twentieth century, and in 1923 the French writer Andre Malraux was arrested for trying to remove statues from it.
Before and after
- from 2 February 962 CE to 6 August 1806Holy Roman Empire
- from 963 CE to 965 CESiege of Rometta
- 965 CEBirth of Ibn al-Haytham
- 965 CEFounding of Kingdom of Denmark
- 967 CEOrigins of Banteay Srei
- from November 968 CE to October 969 CESiege of Antioch
- 6 July 969 CEFounding of Cairo
- c. 970 CEFounding of Al-Azhar University
- March 970 CEBattle of Arcadiopolis
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