Comments on: Angkor Wat Devata Inventory – Ver. 03-17-2010

By: Is Angkor Wat a 12th-century Facebook? | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:53:46 +0000

[...] sentinels, sensuous rather than erotic, carved with elegance and care. But exactly who are these 1,796 mysterious women and why, more than a century after Cambodia’s famed Hindu temple was rediscovered by Western [...]

By: Angkor Wat Awes Indian President | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:22:46 +0000

[...] and perpetuating the Khmer Empire. The most magnificent temples built by the Khmer, including Angkor Wat, the Bayon, Ta Prohm, Preah Khan and many others, prominently feature female [...]

By: The Women of Angkor Wat - The Cambodia Daily | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:26:41 +0000

[...] Davis has identified 1,796 sculpted images on Angkor Wat through his research, expanding on inventories done by stone conservators with the German Apsara [...]

By: Bella Devata! Khmer research in Italian at Cultor.org | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 03:28:57 +0000

[...] the immense stone building, Davis has cataloged 1,796 individual Asian women who appear in highly detailed full-body carvings. They are now called devata or apsaras — [...]

By: Devata Database – November 2008 Photoshoot at Angkor Wat | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Sun, 09 May 2010 18:27:42 +0000

[...] analysis of the collection of carvings as a whole. The Devata Database Project has validated 1,796 devata, and with only a few dozen devata on the hight towers missing from the [...]

By: Angkor Wat Sunrise - Light of an Ancient Empire | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:15:40 +0000

[...] its vast walls and corridors enshrine a delicate legacy, the exquisite portraits of more than 2,000 Khmer women known as devata. Whether they represent goddesses from heaven or queens here on earth is [...]

By: India’s Chaunsat Yogini Temple and the Women of Angkor Wat | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:52:51 +0000

[...] more than the largest religious structure in the world. This Khmer temple also has a human side: for nearly 1,000 years, it has enshrined the images of more than 1,780 sacred women. Angkor Wat devata from the bakkan, the highest and most sacred level of the [...]

By: South Korean Road to Help Protect Angkor Temples | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:29:00 +0000

[...] epics. The temple also protects the largest collection of ancient female portraits in the world: more than 1,780 sacred Khmer women appear on the walls of Angkor Wat with fantastic costumes and accessories proving the Khmer’s cultural sophistication. And Angkor [...]

By: Rajarani Temple: Indian Devata of Orissa | Angkor Wat Aspara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:09:51 +0000

[...] at Angkor Wat, the Bayon, Preah Khan, Thommanon, Ta Som and other Khmer temples, we find female images as the [...]

By: Goddesses of the Bayon: Devata of King Jayavarman VII | Angkor Wat Aspara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:35:29 +0000

[...] comparison with Angkor Wat, Devata.org has cataloged 1,780 standing devata. The dancing goddesses remain uncounted (but we estimate fewer than Dr. Sharrock has calculated at [...]