Modern Review October 1937

The bas-reliefs on the walls of the temples of Angkor confirm these records and further go to show us the splendour of the times of the ancient Khmer kings. [...] The exact dates as obtained by the deciphering of the inscriptions brings the epoch of the splendour of Khmer civilization to that between the IX-th. [...] On the walls of the ancient exterior galleries whose vaults have collapsed and gone one may yet trace the long lines of bas-reliefs that related the thousand and one life episodes of the Khmers of that period ranging from market scenes by the side of the river on which the fishing junks are plying to the plays and diversions provided in the palace for the king and his court. [...] As soon as the Saiva cult replaced that of Buddhism in this temple all the figures relating to the latter were erased from the pilasters and the -pediment Very near the Bayou and beside the great square of the city is found the royal palace or to be more exact the walls that encircled the residence of the kings of those days. [...] Of the same epoch is the great temple of Prah khan where the Khmers created the following wonderful architectural composition unique in the world of art in front of the gates of entry in the outer enclosure.