The vestiges are situated in Binh Ta Hamlet, Duc Hoa Ha Commune, Duc Hoa District, Long An Province. Binh Ta’s architectural and archaeological vestiges including Go Xoai, Go Don and Go Nam Tuoc can be found 40km north-east of the town of Tan An in Long An Province.
Architectural works discovered in Binh Ta’s vestiges are considered to be dedicated to the Siva Deity of Brahmanism which appeared in India around the first century BC and was introduced to southern Indochina at the beginning of the Christian era.
Go Xoai Temple at a depth of 1.7 to 1.9m is considered a one-time celebration place of the Phu Nam people. On a collection of 26 gold objects discovered in Go Xoai, there are thin gold leaves with sentences of Buddhist sutra written in the ancient Sanskrit language. Other valuable objects were also excavated here. There are pieces of Oc Eo pottery, metal, precious stones, sandstone and a series of other relics from primitive man discovered around the temple.
Go Nam Tuoc monument is built of bricks, 17.2m in length, 11.1m in width; its the upper part was lost but its foundation is still characterized by the features of Oc-Eo cultural architecture such as: the angle structure, very straight brick foundation lines, and the semicircular three-door temple gate towards the East, which the base of affirmation that this is a temple architecture of Hinduism.
Go Don Sanctuary is a temple-tower architecture built of bricks, 78.5m in East-West length, 60m in width (North-South direction); before being excavated, the whole architecture had been in the earth’s womb; 0.4m is the nearest position to the earth’s surface. Many stone objects on display such as the statue of Dvarapala genie (Temple Guard Genie), the statue of Ganesa Genie’s head (Blessing Genie), many objects of worship including Linga, Yoni, Mi, the door carved the designs of flowers and leaves, the holy water condiut (Somasutra) and old pottery objects were collected from the ``excavation. In the worship hole, the vestige center is 3m in depth, there is a sacred object “Broken Yoni” and are a lot pebbles reckoned as worship stone.
Most of the works were constructed for religious purposes, but at the same time played a role as a cultural and political centre of the ancient state. Hence, it can be said that Binh Ta Vestiges are the large-scale site of archaeological remnants in the Oc Eo culture.
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