This World Heritage Site of Cambodia at Angkor contains the magnificent remains of the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire to which historians date from 8^th to 15^th c A.D. This includes the Temple of Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple, Preah Khan, Banteay Srei, and Ta Prohm. Angkor is in Cambodia’s northern province of Siem Reap; all major architectural buildings and hydrological engineering systems from the Khmer period define their ancestral link with the term ‘barays’.

Like all world heritage sites of Unesco, Angkor links its ancient history with other heritage sites in the same language of human memory and this is what its universal property is identified with.

Wat has become a general historical property for many heritage sites which geographically stands connected with Sulla and Tunya; it has different name-forms like Wu-tu, Wi, and Ota or Mt Ita. Barays identifies Bariah or Varaha or Baraha. Both Barahi or Baraha and Wat are neighbourly to Angkor and Ang  Thom; While Angkor is a coined name for Ang and Kuru country, Ang Thom is a coined name for Ang and Tom; the latter identifies the Tamralipta and the Tamasa or the Tamala forest; and Ang stands for the Ang country of Indian history.

Pali texts find Khema as the city where Sumana Buddha, Tissa Buddha and Kakusandha Buddha were born at different times of history. Khema was also name of a deer-park near Benares. Khemankar was King of Khema or Khemavati. Use of name Khema in Pali literature seems to be very wide because of its historic connection with the Buddhas of the past. That is the reason why story of Angkor is the story of the ‘inhabited world’ itself.

Bayon—Baya/Bhuyan/Bhubana

Preah —Rabi or Rabah/City of Sun

Khan—Kantha/Neck

Srei—Sri or Sheez at Kantha

Banteay—Monks//Bata Tree

Ta Prohm—Brahma of Tathagata

Siem Reap—Shyam mountain