The Dragon's Mirror: The Magic of Angkor Wat III

The scene is followed by Vishnu defeating the Asuras (an addition from the 16th century CE).
The northern gallery describes the victory of Krishna over Bana (where, according to Glaize, "it is of the worst artistic quality") and a battle between the Hindu gods and the Asuras.
The pavilions to the northeast and southwest have both smaller scenes, some not yet identified but most of them taken straight out of the Ramayana or from Krishna’s life.

Angkor Wat displays a vast number of Apsaras and Devatas, with more than 1,796 of the latter recorded to date. The architects of Angkor Wat employed images of small Apsaras (30-40cm) on pillars and walls as decorative elements. They incorporated larger Devatas images (whole figures of about 95cm-110cm) at each level of the temple, from the entrance pavilion to the top of the tallest towers.
In 1927 Sappho Marchal published a study cataloguing all the most important differences in hair, headgear, clothing, pose, jewelry and floral decorations, concluding that each of these variations was based on current practices of each Angkor period.

Construction techniques -

The stones, smooth as enameled marble have been combined together without the aid of mortar and with joints so narrow that they are sometimes difficult to spot. The blocks are held together by tenon joints and mortar in some cases; in others, by the use of dovetail joint and gravity.

The blocks were presumably transported using elephants, ropes, tie rods, and bamboo scaffolding. Henri Mouhot noted that many of the blocks have holes of 2.5 cm in diameter and 3 cm deep, especially in the larger blocks. Some scholars suggested that such holes were used to insert iron rods, or props to maneuver the stone and put it into its final position.
The temple in its final structure consists of millions of tons of sandstone, and its volume and mass are far larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt. Angkor Wat, with its 6-10 million blocks of an average unit weight of 1.5 tons, including the city that was built around it, has utilized more stones than the three Egyptian pyramids combined, and occupied an area larger than the total surface of today’s Paris; Moreover, unlike the Egyptian pyramids that used limestone excavated just half a kilometer away, the entire city of Angkor was built from sandstone extracted at least 40 kilometers away. The sandstone had to be transported from a quarry on Mount Kulen, located to the northeast and separated by thick jungles and marshes created by the Mekong River. The exact route the builders took remains unknown, but it is thought that they followed a direction along a channel towards Lake Tonle' Sap for 35 kilometers (22 miles,) crossed the lake for another 35 kilometers, and the last 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) they went upstream along the Siem Reap River, for a total journey of 90 kilometers (56 miles).
In 2012, however, Etsuo Uchida and Ichita Shimoda from the Waseda University, Tokyo discovered a shorter channel (35 kilometers/ 22 miles) connecting Mount Kulen with Angkor Wat through the use of satellite imagery, and are certain that the Khmers had chosen that route. We can say that every solid surface of Angkor Wat, from columns to strips, ceilings, walls, and roofs, are carved. There are miles and miles of reliefs illustrating scenes from the Indian literature including unicorns, griffins, winged dragons pulling chariots, warriors following their chief on the back of an elephant, heavenly women dancing, sporting complex hairstyles. The walls of the gallery alone are decorated with almost 1,000 square meters of bas-reliefs.