TERRACE OF LAPER KING

The Terrace of the Leper King (or Leper King Terrace) (Khmer: ព្រះលានស្តេចគំលង់, Preah Learn Sdech Kunlung) is located in the northwest corner of the Royal Square of Angkor Thom, Cambodia. It was built in the Bayon style under Jayavarman VII, though its modern name derives from a 15th century sculpture discovered at the site. The statue depicts the Hindu god Yama, the god of Death. He was called the Leper King because discoloration and moss growing on the original statue was reminiscent of a person with leprosy, and also because it fit in with a Cambodian legend of an Angkorian king who had leprosy. The name that the Cambodians know him by, however, is Dharmaraja,^[1] as this is what was etched at the bottom of the original statue.

Terrace of leper king was built the king Jayavarman 7 and at the end of 12^th century early 13^th dedicated to Buddha and terrace of leper king was corresponded to a story the king of fought with a poisonous snake and while the snake spewed out its poisonous water on the king and the king became a leper and on the terrace of leper king there is a statue of the leper king and this statue is the artificial statue and its head was cut by the thieve and at the bottom is one scene of yama’s judgment and this place was believed a furnery  monument .