Kao Phanom Rung historical park or phnomrung is situated in Chalermphrakiat district, Buriram. Far from Nangrong 28 km. Fine Arts Department declared it as a national historical site in the government gazette no.52, chapter 75, on 8 March 1935. In the past, the extinct volcano, Phanom Rung had turned to a source of plenty water for consuming through the year for many people and a group of people who went up there to do the great construction.

    Prasat hin Phanomrung is a Hindu religious place dedicated to Shiva. Most constructions were built in the16-18 Buddhist era, it was contemporary with Prasat Nakorn wat (Angkor) which was built by King Suryavarman 2 of Khmer in the 17th Buddhist era. That was a religious place dedicated to Vishnu or Narayana. Since Shiva live on his heavenly dwelling, Mount Kailash, it was necessary to find the perfect location to build the great construction in order to be a dwelling of the god, sybolised Mount Kailash. Prasat Phanom Rung was set on the rim of an extinct volcano. That was believed the nearest way to haven. It is located at the south of the volcano and heads to the east to receive the ray of the sun, which means the fortunate beginning and the great power.

     Thap Lang Narai Banthomsilp refers to Narayana, one of Hindu gods. Narayana is sleeping on Anantanagaraj (Mythical Hindu creature) in the milk sea with Lakshmi Devi who is the goddess of beauty and his queen serving him in order that he would sleep peacefully until he wake up to end the eternity and Brahma, the god, would create the earth and the whole buildings, then began the new eternity. Narayana would turn to his long sleep again.

      The walkway leads to the first of three Naga bridges. It is borded by seventy sandstone posts with top of lotus buds, which had been called Nangriang posts. This is a pathway to the sanctuary. The ancient Khmer called Nangcharan posts. If you put a compass upon it, you will see that the walkway is correctly laid on the East and the west spindle.

  Attribute to the brilliant intellectual design and construction of Phanom Rung, according to the astronomic, consequently, there are the astonishing spectacular phenomena that Prasat Phanom Rung allows the ray of the sun to penetrate the 15 doorway of the sanctuary. These phenomena can be observed 4 times a year; the 2 sunrises and the 2 sunsets.

   1st, sunsets on 5-7 March: 6.15-6.22 p.m at Phanomrung
   2nd, sunrises on 3-5 April: 6.05-6.12 a.m at Phanomrung
  3rd, sunrises on 5-7 September: 6.00-6.07 a.m at Phanomrung
   4th, sunsets on 5-7 October: 5.50-5.57 p.m at Phanomrung

        These phenomena will occur in this same period of time every year. However, it sometimes invisible amid a bad whether.

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