The stage arranged at the focal point of the bowl more likely than not conveyed
some workmanship or light-weight structure, however there remains no follow. The
unearthings identified the nearness of a well, first octagonal in area and
0.m55 crosswise over and after that round and a meter in width, with the base lined
in sandstone at a profundity of 2m.70, precisely dressed with emanating joints. Part
of the confronting had been segregated, so growing the cavity wherein was found,
in 1936 - taking after the feeling of a neighborhood to whom the Buddha had
showed up in a fantasy - an imperative piece (the head and part of the body)
of a tremendous bronze statue. Presently in the National Museum, Phnom Penh, this
is a work exceptional in the craft of the Khmer by ideals of its size. Speaking to a
leaning back Vishnou with four arms, once plated and encrusted with valuable
stones and with a general length that probably surpassed four meters, it
gives off an impression of being contemporaneous with the landmark. It was probably the
"prostrate bronze Buddha, from whose navel streamed a constant flow of
water" put by Tcheou Ta-Kouan, maybe erroneously, at the focal in relationship toward the western Mebon than
toward the eastern. Promptly behind the well, toward the east, is a 2 meter square
tank lined with sandstone.
As indicated by the legend, it was here that a youthful princess, the
little girl of one of the lords of Angkor, was eaten up by a tremendous
crocodile, who, after his fiendishness, got away by diving an expansive opening in the bank
of the baray - which one can at present see toward the west of the town of Svay Romiet.
Whenever caught and killed, the monster conveyed the as yet living casualty in its stomach.
