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Muara Takus is a Mahayana Buddhist temple complex on the Kampar Kanan River in Riau province of central Sumatra, Indonesia, built between approximately 700 and 1000 CE. The site is associated with the Srivijaya empire that controlled the Strait of Malacca trade between the 7th and 13th centuries, and is the largest known Buddhist monumental site in Sumatra. The complex contains four principal structures within a walled enclosure of 74 by 74 metres — Candi Tua, Candi Bungsu, Candi Mahligai, and a smaller stupa platform — built of distinctive red sandstone and yellow tuff blocks not native to the immediate area, indicating long-distance transport of building stone. The Mahligai stupa rises 14 metres in three stepped tiers crowned by a bell-shaped finial. Dutch archaeologist Cornelis Marinus Pleyte conducted the first systematic survey in 1887. The complex was restored by the Indonesian government in the 1980s.
The Mahligai stupa remains intact at the centre of the cleared compound.