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Thanh Tien There are 20 steles you can read the contents in the area Tower , 7 steles were written in ancient Cham language, remain is inscribed in Sankrit of India. Steles were made Gray Silic stone, high hardness, rough surface and gray green granite. Contents in steles: Steles with inscriptions ancient Cham language: Stele No. 1: speak negative balance those times of the gods - the owner of the gold hill ... shedding tears. Stele No. 2: it clear Champa king offered wealth to The mother of country Ponagar. Stele No. 6: Princess Suryadevi and which ones offered to the gods a lot of gold and silver treasures in Ponagar . Steles with inscriptions Sankrit of Indian: It was found in temples Ponagar also mentioned the offerings of gold, silver, pearls for the goddess. Tale of Lady Ponagar: Lady Ponagar also became goddess of Vietnamese people called Thien YA Na and the tale in vietnamese culture. Lady Po Nagar was the founder of the Cham people according to legends. She originated from a peasant family in the mountains of Khánh Hòa Province. Gods helped her when she sailed on a drift piece of sandalwood to China, where she married a Chinese crown prince, the son of the Emperor of China, who she had two children with, and then became Queen of Champa. When Lady Po Nagar returned to Champa to visit her family, the Prince refused to let her go, but she flung the sandalwood into the ocean, disappeared with her children and appeared at Nha Trang to her family. When the Chinese prince tried to follow her back to Nha Trang, she was furious, and turned him and his fleet into stone.

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There are 20 steles you can read the contents in the area Tower , 7 steles were written in ancient Cham language, remain is inscribed in Sankrit of India.

Steles were made Gray Silic stone, high hardness, rough surface and gray green granite. Contents in steles:

Steles with inscriptions ancient Cham language:

Stele No. 1: speak negative balance those times of the gods - the owner of the gold hill ... shedding tears.

Stele No. 2: it clear Champa king offered wealth to The mother of country Ponagar.

Stele No. 6: Princess Suryadevi and which ones offered to the gods a lot of gold and

silver treasures in Ponagar .

Steles with inscriptions Sankrit of Indian:

It was found in temples Ponagar also mentioned the offerings of gold, silver, pearls for

the goddess.

Tale of Lady Ponagar: Lady Ponagar also became goddess of Vietnamese people called Thien YA Na and the tale

in vietnamese culture. Lady Po Nagar was the founder of the Cham people according to legends. She originated from a peasant family in the mountains of Khánh Hòa Province. Gods helped her when she

sailed on a drift piece of sandalwood to China, where she married a Chinese crown prince, the son of the Emperor of China, who she had two children with, and then became Queen of Champa. When Lady Po Nagar returned to Champa to visit her family, the Prince refused to let her go, but she flung the sandalwood into the ocean, disappeared with her children and appeared at Nha Trang to her family. When the Chinese prince tried to follow her back to

Nha Trang, she was furious, and turned him and his fleet into stone.