A
lintel
in
Khmer
Baphuon
style, found in
Phimai
and dated around the 10th to 11th century AD.
It depicts a scene from the
Ramayana
in which
Indrachit,
one of the demons, has shot the
nagabaat at
Rama
and tied him down. Rama is here portrayed lying
on the ground with the
naga coiled around his body and surrounded by some
monkey-warriors of his army. However, the
Garuda,
i.e. the archenemy of the naga, accidentally flew by, here seen in the
centre, and the naga from fear will subsequently release Rama.
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