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West of the third eastern gopura, on the main axis is a Hall of Dancers.

The walls are decorated with apsaras ; Buddha images in niches above them were destroyed in the anti-Buddhist reaction under Jayavarman VIII.

North of the Hall of Dancers is a two-storeyed structure with round columns.

No other examples of this form survive at Angkor, although there are traces of similar buildings at Ta Prohm and Banteay Kdei.

Freeman and Jacques speculate that this may have been a granary.

Occupying the rest of the third enclosure are ponds ( now dry ) in each corner, and satellite temples to the north, south and west.

While the main temple was Buddhist, these three are dedicated to Shiva, previous kings and queens, and Vishnu respectively.

They are notable chiefly for their pediments: on the northern temple, Vishnu reclining to the west and the Hindu trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma to the east ; on the western temple, Krishna raising Mount Govardhana to the west.