Sculpture fragments from Mathura. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Group of sculpture of female figures at the museum at Mathura. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in Eastern Rajputana in 1882-83' (A.S.I. vol. XX, Calcutta, 1885), p. 34: 'The sculptures exhumed have been collected together in a small local museum, w...
Statue of a man and lion, Mathura. Photographer: Unknown
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Assumed by Cunningham to be Hercules strangling the Nemaean lion and described in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82' (A.S.I. vol. XVII, Calcutta, 1884), pp. 109-10. The left half of pl. xxx appears to be based on this photograph. The pie...
Sculpture panel showing a Jain stupa and torana, two dancing girls, with inscription beneath, from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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For inscription, see 'Epigraphia Indica', vol. II, p. 200. Bloch: 'The technical name of such a panel was ayagapata [homage panel].' Piece now in the Lucknow Museum.
An ayagapata or Jain homage tablet, with small figure of a tirthankara in the centre, from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Jain homage tablet, donor unknown, found in the Jain stupa at Kankali Tila. Drawing of this piece reproduced in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 9. Piece now in the Lucknow Museum.
An ayagapata or Jain homage tablet, with small figure of a tirthankara in the centre and inscription below, from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Jain homage tablet, set up by the wife of Bhadranadi, said to have been found in December 1890 near the centre of the mound of the Jain stupa at Kankali Tila. Drawing of this piece reproduced in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 11. Now in...
