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The gopura has three entrances, the east-facing pediment of the northern one shows " the offering of the animals in the forest of Parilyyaka ", where the Buddha retreated after leaving Kosambi.
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Each of the first two terraces has a gopura at the four cardinal points.
Each gopura has three independent passages and a central tower with diminishing tiers.
The east facing gopura, in particular, has well-preserved garuda images on its corners.
The third enclosure has a gopura which has a cruciform plan.
It has a gopura on its eastern side and also subsidiary gopura on the west.
The gopura is built like a gallery with one exterior wall and double row of pillars which open into a courtyard and which has mostly shored up walls with small openings at the bottom to allow air circulation.
It has therefore limited itself primarily to stabilisation work on the fourth eastern gopura, the House of Fire and the Hall of Dancers.
On the far side of the temple, the third western gopura has pediments of a chess game and the Battle of Lanka, and two guardian dvarapalas to the west.
The eastern outer gopura has been overgrown by a sacred fig ( Ficus religiosa ) which has grown down through the blocks that make up the gopura and into the ground.
The inner enclosure wall has collapsed, leaving a gopura at the eastern end and a brick shrine at the western.
The eastern pediment of the gopura shows Śiva Nāṭarāja ; the west-facing pediment has an image of Durgā.
The fifth gopura, in the Koh Ker style, retains traces of the red paint with which it was once decorated, although the tiled roof has now disappeared.
The fourth gopura is later, from the Khleang / Baphuon periods, and has on its southern outer pediment, " one of the masterpieces of Preah Vihear " ( Freeman, p. 162 ): a depiction of the Churning of the Sea of Milk.
It has no gopura.
gopura and three
The gopura itself is on a large scale, with three towers in the centre and two flanking pavilions.
Designed to be entered from the east, Ta Som is surrounded by a moat and enclosed by three laterite walls which are broken by two sets of gopura ( entrance ways ).
A causeway stituated on the axis leads from an outer gopura, or gate, to the third or outermost of the three enclosures.
gopura and pediment
Neither pediment of the eastern gopura is in situ.
gopura and northern
The gopura situated in the northern side.
gopura and one
The second eastern gopura projects into this courtyard ; it is one of the few Angkorian gopuras with significant internal decoration, with garudas on the corners of the cornices.
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One gallery just north of the eastern gopura, for example, shows two linked scenes which have been explained as the freeing of a goddess from inside a mountain, or as an act of iconoclasm by Cham invaders.
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A gopura leads into the 12th century temple compound at Ta Prohm.
A gopura is an entrance building.
At Angkor, passage through the enclosure walls surrounding a temple compound is frequently accomplished by means of an impressive gopura, rather than just an aperture in the wall or a doorway.
Enclosures surrounding a temple are often constructed with a gopura at each of the four cardinal points.
In plan, gopuras are usually cross-shaped and elongated along the axis of the enclosure wall ; if the wall is constructed with an accompanying gallery, the gallery is sometimes connected to the arms of the gopura.
The main gopura of the Thanjavur Temple pyramid.
Image: Phimai naga staircase. JPG | The Naga Bridge, leading to the southern outer gopura
Image: Pimai1. jpg | The inner enclosure seen from the southern outer gopura
The most substantial of these other buildings are the libraries in the southeast corners of the first and third enclosures ; the satellite temples on the north and south sides of the third enclosure ; the Hall of Dancers between the third and fourth eastern gopuras ; and a House of Fire east of the fourth eastern gopura.
Just outside of the eastern gopura there is a modern buddhist temple.
The entry is from the east facing gopura, which is in a cruciform embellished with Lokesvara images.
Access from the east is via a gopura, followed by a mandapa, or antechamber, before arriving at the central sanctuary.
In front of the third gopura is a cruciform terrace.
West of the third eastern gopura, on the main axis is a Hall of Dancers.
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