| Abstract: |
Orientations of Khmer Temples presents the author's GPS-based field-research covering 325 ancient Khmer temples in Eastern and Northeastern Thailand - and also comment on the contemporary royal temples at Angkor. The Indian Circle describes an ancient Vedic method of orientating temples cardinally, which is described in most of the Indian astronomical treasures, the Siddhantas, and could have been used among the Khmer master-builders as well. The description also describe other proposed methods and finally presents a simple, but very precise method of cardinal determination invented by the author during astronomical experiments in the Phu Phan mountains of NE-Thailand.
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