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On the bas-relief above Vishnu is depicted reclining on the Ananta serpent on the Ocean of Milk. The posture is known as the Vishnu Anantasayin posture. Lakshmi, his consort, is seated at his feet and Brahma springs from his navel.
Vishnu is the god of preservation and one of the Hindu trinity of deities (trimurthi): Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva). At the end of the cosmic era (kalpa), he rests in meditative sleep on a serpent known as Ananta on the Ocean of Milk, waiting for Brahma to recreate the cosmos. At that moment a lotus springs forth from his navel, with Brahma seated on it (see picture above). Brahma would be responsible for the re-creation of the world and in a new cosmic era.
Prasat Phanom Rung is a temple dedicated Shiva of the Hindu pantheon Brahma-Shiva-Vishnu and is build on the top of an extinct volcano 200 meters above the Buriram plain in Southern Isan (North East Thailand). Most of the present structure is built by a local Khmer lord, Narendraditya, in the 12th century AD, when Suryavarman II ruled in Angkor Wat.
Size: 7" x 5"