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Yasovarman I: The King Who Built Angkor’s First Baray and Moved a Capital
Before Angkor Wat rose from the jungle, before Jayavarman VII’s sprawling city temples, one man made the decision that shaped Khmer history for centuries: Yasovarman I. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how this late 9th-century king moved the capital from the Roluos group to a new site centered on Phnom Bok, the hill he declared the new Mount Meru. They dive into the engineering of the Eastern Baray, an 8-kilometer-long reservoir that held 50 million cubic meters of water—built without modern machinery. They also unpack the contested story of Yasovarman's parentage (did he usurp…
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