Footnotes:
(1) The Khmer temple complex was designed as an earthly model of Mount Meru, home
of the Hindu god Vishnu. Mount Meru’s five peaks are conceived as surrounded by
mountain ranges and oceans, represented architecturally by the outer walls and moats. A
Sanskrit inscription compares the moats and reservoirs at the temples with tributaries of
the sacred Ganges River in India.
(2) Luang Prasoet’s "Royal Chronicles of Ayutthaya" set its establishment at 1363 AD.