Close view of capital of a pillar inside the 'Amrita' Cave (Cave XIX), Udayagiri, Madhya Pradesh. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Described in Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pp. 52-53: 'The roof is supported by four massive pillars, 8 feet high and 1 foot 7 inches square, also hewn out of the rock. Th...
General view of entrance to Chandragupta Cave (Cave VI), Udayagiri, Madhya Pradesh. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing the doorway, with sculpture panels of deities on either side. Reproduced as a lithograph in A. Cunningham, Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77 (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pl. xvii and described pp. 49-50. Subjects = Arc...
Close view of entrance to the Bina Cave (Cave IV), Udayagiri, Madhya Pradesh. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing foliate decoration on the architraves. Described in A. Cunningham, Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77 (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), pp. 47-48, where the cave is named the 'Bina' of 'Vina' Cave and given the number 3. Georg...
Interior of Dhokeshvara Cave, Dhoke. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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A water-damaged print. View looking across the cave towards the sculptures on the far wall and the entrance to the linga shrine. Henry Cousens, Revised list of antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency ... originally compiled by J. Burgess (Bombay, 1897), p. 32; James Fergusson and James Bur...
General view from the right of the entrance to Hindu rock-cut temple, Cave III, Badami. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); rock-cut temples; temples
Front view of the Dharmaraja Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); rock-cut temples; temples
Entrance, with rock-cut sculptures, to the Trimurti Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the three shrines (to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva) arranged in a row on the rock-face, each niche flanked by pilasters with guardian figures. This temple is described in James Burgess, The cave temples of India (London, 1880), pp. 152-153, and ther...
General view of the entrance to the Varaha Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography The view shows the entrance façade, the opening supported by two columns with lion bases, with an Indian figure in the foreground. The empty shrine (centre background) is flanked by guardian figures. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archa...
