Preah Thorani, known in Khmer also as Neang Konghing and Preah Mae Thorani ('Mother Earth'), is the earth goddess who anchors one of the most beloved images in Cambodian Buddhism: a graceful young woman wringing water from her long dark hair beneath the Buddha's throne. When Mara challenged the Buddha's fitness for enlightenment, the Buddha touched the earth to call her as witness, and Thorani released the accumulated waters of his lifetimes of generosity, drowning Mara's army. Scholarship traces her as a Buddhist personification layered over far older mainland Southeast Asian veneration of the earth and its fertility, and her image guards temple thrones and boundary stones across Cambodia.