Bat Chum

Bat Chum is a small temple built by Kavindrarimathana, a learned Buddhist minister of Khmer king Rajendravarman, at the middle of the 10th century. It is about south of Srah Srang, at Angkor, Cambodia. A minister is in these cases a learned monk-advisor comparable with the Hindu purohita.
It consists of three inline brick towers, standing on the same platform, surrounded by an enclosure and a moat, with a single gopura to the east.
On the doorjambs there are Buddhist inscriptions that mention Kavindrarimathana, the "architect" who built Srah Srang, East Mebon, and maybe planned the temple-mountain of Pre Rup. The latter was dedicated in 960 AD, shortly before death of the architect. There were houses and a Buddhist monastery near the temple, but these wooden structures have been gone for a long time.
During the excavations in 1952, in the northern and central towers, flagstones showing a yantra were found, which George Coedès was able to reconstitute and with extreme difficulty link to the Buddhist divinities mentioned on doorjambs.
In every tower there is a different inscription signed by three different persons. The last verse of each of the three refers to the elephants as "dyke breakers".