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Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3077)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. Small monolithic temple near the village. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Ganesha Ratha. Received from Captain Lyon, 5th May 1871. India Museum no. 1319. Duplicate at Photo 212/5 (23).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3078)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. Basso-relievo on left side of Vishnu temple. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Relief sculpture in the Varaha Cave Temple: 'The god is represented in the left end as shown in the Photograph in the Varaha Avatar, or boar incarnation - the third of that god'. Received from Captain Lyon, 5th May 1871. India Museum no. 1320. Duplicate at Photo...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3079)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. Basso-relievo on right side of Vishnu temple. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Relief sculpture in the Varaha Cave Temple: 'The subject seems some incarnation of Vishnu [Trivikrama], and he is represented with eight arms, holding various weapons, but both the attitude and action look more like Shiva than this god. Its position, the emblems...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3080)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. Basso-relievo on back wall of Vishnu temple. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Relief sculpture in the Varaha Cave Temple: 'They face the entrance, and represent female deities, more probably Lakshmi, with different attributes and accompanied by attendants'. Received from Captain Lyon, 5th May 1871. India Museum no. 132. Duplicate at Photo...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3081)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. Continuation of basso-relievos in No 432. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3082)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. Basso-relievo on left wall of temple of Shiva. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Relief sculpture in the Mahishmardini Cave Temple: 'At the left of the entrance is a gigantic image of Vishnu, sleeping on the Seshseja, or the five-headed snake, its heads forming his canopy, as shown in the photograph'. Received from Captain Lyon, 5th May 1871...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3083)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. Basso-relievo on right wall of temple of Shiva. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Relief sculpture in the Mahishamardini Cave Temple: '...a representation of Durga, mounted on a lion, attacking Maheshasur [Mahisha], or the buffalo-headed demon'. Received from Captain Lyon, 5th May 1871. India Museum no. 1325. Duplicate at Photo 212/5 (29).
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3084)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. General view of granite rocks. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking towards rock outcrop dotted with cave temples. On the summit of the rocks stands the Olakkanatha Temple, with the entrance to the Mahishamardini Cave directly beneath. Received from Captain Lyon, 5th May 1871. India Museum no. 1326. Duplicat...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3086)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. General view of monolithic temples. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography The Pancha Rathas from the north-west. The view shows, from left to right: Draupadi Ratha, Arjuna Ratha, Bhima Ratha, Dharmaraja Ratha and Nakula Sahadeva Ratha. With the stone lion and elephant, carved in the round, in the foreground. Received from Captain Lyon...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1000/30(3087)
Title:: Mahavellipore, near Madras. The first monolith [the Draupadi Ratha]. Photographer: Lyon, Edmund David
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View from the west of the Draupadi Ratha, showing the entrance, with flanking figures carved in relief. '...[Draupadi ratha] represents the one most to the north, and is the only one which is finished, and has its cell hollowed out, and with carvings of figures ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1868
Extent:: 1 item

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