Phnom Santok is a social and regular site situated in Ko Koh town, Ko Koh collective, Santuk area, around 17 kilometers south of Kampong Thom common town. The site incorporate four mountains: Phnom Srah Kmao or Phnom Tbeng, Phnom Penhum or Phnom Kraper, Phnom Champa and Phnom Santuk.
Since the old time to the present, Phnom Santuk Mountain has been brought in numerous names as underneath:
- Phnom Thom (ever)
- Phnom Arth Santuk (In history)
- Phnom Chorm Chong Kiri
- Phnom Krop Tuk
- Phnom Preah Bat Chann Tuk
The old legacies on the highest point of the mountain:
- Many Buddha statues were cut from extraordinary mountain shake including three major Buddha statues arriving at Nirvana, every ha more than 10-meter length.
- Prasat Touch of pyramid shape, made of sandstone, has three stories and three-meter tallness, and is situated beside the antiquated wooden sanctuary (by and by, it is made of concrete) with a rectangular lake (10m x 4m).
- Preah Bat Chann Tuk statue was cut on the stone molded as nourishment of a holy human, and there are numerous other little models. By the accounts, the development and the statues were raised during the rule of Preah Ponhea Dharma Reacha (1474-1494) and have been kept as of recently.
Phnom Santuk has changed names to Chorn Chong Kiri and Phnom Krop Tuk. Chan Dare or Chan Chare are considered two bits of stone by nearby individuals that combine all in stamped image and made in little opening, the traveler landed there, they generally dropped money coins (antiquated coins) into this little gap. At the point when money coins was dropped in, it make delicate powerless voice like a voice of the feathered creatures sing or music with bliss. So they did that since antiquated period.
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