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which is the best preserved. You can see the gate in the background. The city has five monumental gates, one on each side facing the four cardinal directions, plus the royal entrance called the 'Gate of Victory'. The photo shows the multiple heads of Shesha, a water-snake known as a 'naga', which is at one end of the parapets on each side of the causeway. At the end of the other parapet is the tail of the serpent.
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