India, Cambodia, and Indonesia are home to some of the most religiously influential megalithic structures of ancient Southeast Asia. These monuments stand before us in the present as faint remnants of the ancient civilizations that aspired to build towards the heavens. Each of the Hindu temples discussed in the coming pages were chosen because, while they were separated by hundreds of years and thousands of miles, each of the societies played a pivotal role in perpetuating the telling of the Hindu epic; the Ramayana as they observed in their own time. Many of the world's most elaboratel...

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