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Pan-India 94
South India 66
West India 30
East India 22
North India 15
The Himalaya 12
Northeast India 5
Southeast Asia 4
Central India 4
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Tradition: Southeast Asian · clear
From the epics · 2 tellings
Rama in Thailand and Cambodia
Thailand's Ramakien makes Phra Ram an incarnation of Phra Narai and a Bodhisatta; Cambodia's Reamker reads Preah Ream almost as a mortal through a Theravada lens.
In stone and bronze · 1 telling · contested
The triple shrine of Phnom Bok
A Khmer hilltop temple of Yasovarman I with three towers for Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma — a rare true Trimurti set — within a Cambodian tradition whose main composite cult was Harihara.
How a tradition frames it · 2 tellings
Three faces of one Widhi
Balinese Hinduism reveres Brahma, Wisnu and Siwa as manifestations of the one ineffable Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa, a formulation sharpened for state recognition.