80 financial penalty is a record wherein it states that two pairs of cows were offered. Many court hearings have been recorded with reference to land ownership. Whenever the king erected a mammoth temple for the upholding of the state, a temple such as Angkor Wat, the manner as to how the promotion of the task and accumulation of necessary resources was carried out has still not been clarified. It appears as though the “rājakāhryya” tax that attended the actual work was corvée, that is, compulsory unpaid labor due to the king. If someone were to undertake work on the temple under orders from the king, one may assume they were exempted from the payment of tax. For the erection of temples, groups of experts such as carpenters, masons, assemblers, and stone carriers, guided people at the construction site. The villagers went to the temple during the off-season and worked as a group, viewing this work as a religious activity oriented towards the accumulation of merit. Research Conducted on the Five Major Archaeological Sites (Local Bases) When pondering over the social and economic bases of the era when massive temples like Angkor Wat could be erected, we raised once more the hypothesis that the setting was the “Angkor dynasty,” which was widespread beyond the Angkor area. In order to comprehend the development of the Angkor dynasty, it is necessary to explore the large and small archaeological sites in the region and discuss their cooperation. What served as a clue was the investigation conducted on the five major archaeological sites in the area that are more than five times as large as Angkor Wat, (namely Sambor Prei Kuk, Koh Ker, the Preah Khan Kompong Svay, Beng Mealea, and Banteay Srei). Regarding these 5 major archaeological sites, from a fragmentary research of the 1960s the first full-scale survey developed in around 40 years. Aside from the uneven road where land mines dating to the period of the civil war had been left
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