With the development of religious worship, the ancient Khmers modeled the overall vision of Braahmanism and Buddhism to their own sensibilities, and replaced the major gods with their ancestors. There is clear evidence of this shift in the statues of deities built under the reign of Jayavarman VII, when they were designed to look like him or his wife, such as the statues of the kneeling Prajnaparamita and those of the king himself. Phimean Akas temple inscription K. 485, written by Indradeví, provides further insight into this practice, ‘Jayarájadeví, an intelligent women, erected everywhere statues of her mother, her father, her brother, her friends, her forebears and relatives that she knew or had heard of’ (stanza XCIII). There is mention of Indradeví herself in stanza XCVI, ‘[…] Thus, while erecting numerous images of Srí Jayarájadeví along with images of herself and the king, in every city, […]’. However, it is difficult to maintain and to accept that all the images of...