Prasat Phra Wihan Nāga stairways

Nāga stairways are causeways or true steps lined by stone balustrades shaped as nāgas.
In some Angkorian nāga-ways, as for example those located at the entrances to 12th century city of Angkor Thom, the nāga-shaped balustrades are supported not by simple posts but by stone statues of gigantic warriors. These giants are the devas and asuras who used the nāga king Vasuki in order to the churn the Ocean of Milk in quest of the amrita or elixir of immortality.
In Mueang Boran its reconstructed the Nāga stairways three times smaller than the original one in the Khmer province Praeh Vihaer.

My album about the original temple complex is
https://www.test.ipernity.com/doc/wolfgang-pfriemer/album/54056?from=1656305&at=1206451584