Some of the topics Zhou Daguan addressed in his account are those of religion, justice, kingship, agriculture, slavery, birds, vegetables, bathing, clothing, tools, draft animals, and commerce. In one passage, he described a royal procession consisting of soldiers, numerous servant women and concubines, ministers and princes, and finally, “the sovereign, standing on an elephant, holding …
As I stand before these magnificent abodes of Gods or shall I say – Divinity, a concerned mind is stirred; stirred & churned constantly by something that it desires to learn regards – just what brought Angkor to the current state? Is it the man himself who built these magnificent temples? Or something more, much more …
33 years is long enough time to wait and go visit the Holy Temples of Angkor Wat; from the time that one first came to learn of those most awe-inspiring marvels. But as over the past three decades, I went about my career in the Indian Army, somewhere deep within there always was an amber …