This temple-monastery was posthumously dedicated to Jayavarman VII’s mother, Jayarajachudamani, and his guru, Jayamangalartha. According its foundation stele, there were 12,640 people in residence, and the temple was served by 79,365 people from surrounding villages. The Ecole Francaise d’Extreme-Orient decided to leave the temple in its ‘natural state’ as an example of how Angkor looked when it was discovered in the 19th century, and since then it has been maintained in this condition of deliberate neglect.