human hands an army of roots creep over and around them like tentacles even the plants seek to destroy. the king of death known to the brahmans as shiva who would throw his enemy to the animals to be devoured appears to have foreseen that men would build palaces and temples as a lasting memorial to their greatness to demolish these monuments he devised other means of destruction like the ruinous fig tree that nothing can withstand. jayaraman the seventh king to rule over a devastated country the capital had been razed to the ground the fields leached out and most of the irrigation systems destroyed his new temple city was laid out on traditional canal lines the central temple mount and lies within