Get-together of Harihara statue's head and body must be lasting

At the landing of 2016, two great things were conveyed to Cambodia. The first is the returning of the stone head of Harihara, a blend of the Hindu divine beings Vishnu and Shiva, and the second one is the formal acknowledgment of "pull of-war" [aka teanh prot] as a world legacy by UNESCO. These assignments and occasions are the accomplishments of the Cambodian government in elevating its way of life to the world. On this event, I might want to highlight one of the accomplishments above.

Get-together of Harihara statue's head and body must be lasting

The returning of the head of Harihara from Musée Guitmet, France, to Cambodia was both energizing and stressing. 
 
It is energizing on the grounds that the head, which had been isolated from its body in Cambodia for over a century, could be brought together and reattached, which makes a social environment of body, soul and psyche. It is exceptionally uncommon for Cambodian items to be come back from France in the wake of being housed there for a very long while. This demonstration of the Musée Guimet was very cheered. This get-together of body and head of Harihara got a warm welcome from the legislature, as Deputy Prime Minister Sok A said in his discourse on January 21, which was cited by AKP: "As indicated by the Cambodians' conviction, this is a decent image of gathering, reunification, agreement and quality of the Cambodian country's soul, and a hint of something to look forward to for this new year 2016, which will realize thriving and new accomplishments to the Cambodian country notwithstanding the current ones achieved by the Royal Government of Cambodia."


While the returning of the head of Harihara was energizing news, there is additionally a worry and question in the matter of why the Musée Guimet gave back this stone head to Cambodia while heaps of others stay there. After a little research, it unfolds that the returning of the stone head was made under an advance assention. Along these lines, this get-together of Harihara of head and body is not lasting. In kind, as per the credit assention, a platform of the Goddess Uma moving was to be brought to Musée Guimet. This credit trade is substantial for a long time. Albeit nobody knows for beyond any doubt what will happen to the statue in five years when the credit assention terminates, the gathering must be isolated one day, unless there is another understanding with respect to this Harihara.

I am keeping in touch with solicitation that the connection and get-together of the Harihara head and body must be perpetual. The get-together of social property implies a considerable measure to Cambodians. The gathering of Harihara is the blend of body and brain once both are connected; it makes a domain of compromise and reunification. The brain shouldn't be isolated from the body. Head and body should be as one forever. This arrival and get-together ought to happen to all Cambodian statues which are being shown abroad or are in private accumulations. Ethically and ethnically, the arrival of those statues, paying little mind to law, symbolizes the get-together of body and soul for Cambodians. I take this event to join with the Royal Government of Cambodia in calling for outside nations or private gatherers to return social articles to Cambodia, and the items must remain the perpetual property of Cambodia.

Socheat Nhean is the media focus chief at the Sleuk Rith Institute (Documentation Center of Cambodia)