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So far as the identity of the Angkor Vāt is concerned, Fergusson and others have no doubt that it was originally a Hindu temple, probably of Nāga-Vāsuki, and that it could not be a Buddhist temple. The reasons given are convincing. 'Though the god is gone, and the Buddhists have taken possession of the temple,⁵ every angle of every roof is adorned with an image of the seven-headed snake, and there are hundreds of them; every cornice is composed of snake's heads; every convolution of the roofs, and there are thousands, terminates in a five- or seven-headed snake. The balustrades are snakes, and the ridge of every roof was apparently adorned with gilt dragons.’