Po Klaung Garai is the most venerated of the deified kings of the Cham Ahier. Tradition tells of a poor youth, disfigured by leprosy or sores, who fell asleep and was licked by a serpent-dragon; the omen revealed his destiny, and he rose to become king of Panduranga. As sovereign he is remembered above all as a builder of waters — the great weirs of the Dinh river that turned the arid Phan Rang plain into rice-land are ascribed to him. His brick tower on Trầu hill, enshrining a mukhalinga carved with a royal face, remains the principal sanctuary of the southern Cham and the heart of the Katê festival, when his image is bathed and clothed each year. Historians associate him with a ruler of the late twelfth century, but in cult he is simply a yang, a living god of kingship and irrigation.