# Bat Chum

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{{Infobox Buddhist temple
| name                  = Bat Chum
| religious_affiliation = Buddhism
| image                 = Bat Chum 2020 - 13.jpg
| image_upright         = 
| alt                   = 
| caption               = 
| map_type              = Cambodia
| coordinates           = {{coord|13|25|29|N|103|54|27|E|type:landmark|display=inline, title}}
| map_caption           = Location in Cambodia
| other_names           = 
| sanskrit_translit     = 
| country               = [Cambodia](/source/Cambodia)
| province              = [Siem Reap](/source/Siem_Reap_province)
| district              = 
| locale                = [Angkor](/source/Angkor)
| deity                 = [Buddha](/source/Buddha)
| festivals             = 
| architecture          = [Khmer](/source/Khmer_architecture) ([Pre Rup](/source/Pre_Rup) style)
| architect             = [Kavindrarimathana](/source/Kavindrarimathana)
| temple_quantity       = 3 towers
| monument_quantity     = 
| inscriptions          = 3 (1 in each 3 towers)
| year_completed        = Mid 10th century AD
| creator               = [Rajendravarman](/source/Rajendravarman)
}}
'''Bat Chum''' ({{langx|km|ប្រាសាទបាទជុំ}}) is a [Buddhist](/source/Buddhist) temple built by Kavindrarimathana, a learned Buddhist minister of [Khmer](/source/Khmer_Empire) king [Rajendravarman](/source/Rajendravarman_II),<ref name=Coedes>{{cite book|last= Coedès|first= George|authorlink= George Coedès|editor= Walter F. Vella|others= trans.Susan Brown Cowing|title= The Indianized States of Southeast Asia|year= 1968|publisher= University of Hawaii Press|isbn= 978-0-8248-0368-1 |page=116}}</ref> at the middle of the 10th century. It is about {{convert|400|m|-2|sp=us}} south of [Srah Srang](/source/Srah_Srang), at [Angkor](/source/Angkor), [Cambodia](/source/Cambodia).

It consists of three inline brick towers (in poor conditions at present), standing on the same platform, surrounded by an enclosure and a moat, with a single [gopura](/source/Architecture_of_Cambodia) to the east.

On the doorjambs there are [Buddhist](/source/Buddhism) inscriptions that mention Kavindrarimathana, the "architect" (or official in charge for construction) who built Srah Srang, [East Mebon](/source/East_Mebon), and maybe planned the [temple-mountain](/source/Architecture_of_Cambodia) of [Pre Rup](/source/Pre_Rup).<ref>Freeman and Jacques, 2006, p.158</ref> The latter was dedicated in 960 AD, shortly before death of the architect. There were houses and a Buddhist monastery near the temple, but these wooden structures have been gone for a long time.<ref>''Ancient Angkor'' guide book, by Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques, published in 2003.</ref>

During the excavations in 1952, in the northern and central towers, flagstones showing a [yantra](/source/yantra) were found, which [George Coedès](/source/George_Coed%C3%A8s) was able to reconstitute and with extreme difficulty link to the Buddhist divinities mentioned on doorjambs.<ref>Dumarçay ''et al.'', 2001, pp.18-19</ref>

In every tower there is a different inscription signed by three different persons. The last verse of each of the three refers to the elephants as "dyke breakers".<ref>Freeman and Jacques, 2006, p.155</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Bat Chum 2020 - 02.jpg|The temple
Bat Chum 2020 - 04.jpg|Left tower
Bat Chum 2020 - 05.jpg|Middle tower
Bat Chum 2020 - 06.jpg|Right tower
Bat Chum 2020 - 11.jpg|Door to the middle tower
Bat Chum 2020 - 08.jpg|Stone lions
</gallery>

==Footnotes==
<references/>

==References==
*{{cite book
  |last1= Dumarçay
  |first1= Jacques
  |last2= Royère
  |first2= Pascal
  |last3= Smithies
  |first3= Michael
  |last4= Kähler
  |first4= Hans
  |last5= Arps
  |first5= Ben
  |last6= Spuler
  |first6= Bertold
  |last7= Altenmüller
  |first7= Hartwig
  |title= Cambodian Architecture, Eight to Thirteenth Century
  |year= 2001
  |publisher= Brill
  |isbn= 90-04-11346-0
  |ref=Dumarç2001}}

*{{cite book
  |last1= Freeman
  |first1= Michael
  |last2= Jacques
  |first2= Claude
  |title= Ancient Angkor
  |year= 2006
  |publisher= River Books
  |isbn= 974-8225-27-5
  |ref= FreJac2006
  |url-access= registration
  |url= https://archive.org/details/ancientangkor00free
  }}

==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Bat Chum}}
{{Angkorian sites}}

Category:Angkorian sites in Siem Reap province
Category:Buddhist temples in Siem Reap province
Category:10th-century Buddhist temples
Category:Former Hindu temples in Cambodia

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