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About the Indian origin of the Cambodian art there is no doubt. ‘Indian temples were constructed with pillars almost purely classical in design, and ornamented with bas-reliefs so strangely Egyptian in character.’³ In Cambodia before the Hindu colonization there might have been a civilization and even some religion, but no art, declares Fergusson. ‘Indians seem slowly, and only to a limited extent, to have been able to modify their religion towards Hinduism, probably because it was identical, or at least sympathetic, but they certainly endowed the Cambodians with an art which we have no reason to suppose they before possessed.’⁴