On the hill of Phnom Bok near Angkor, Yasovarman I raised three towers side by side for the three gods, Shiva in the middle, Vishnu to the north and Brahma to the south — the kind of image the site may call a Trimurti without qualification. In Cambodia more broadly the most important joint cult was Harihara, and Shaiva and Vaishnava worship stayed close from the Chenla period to Suryavarman II, whose Angkor Wat is a Vishnu temple laid out as Meru with the churning of the ocean along its eastern gallery.
Base reading; a triple enshrinement rather than a narrative panel.
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