Group of terracotta figures from Bodh Gaya. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography A very dark print, showing a group of terracotta images of Hindu deities and Buddha images, packed for transportation on wooden shelves. The top right-hand piece is reproduced in Alexander Cunningham, 'Mahabodhi or the Great Buddhist Temple under the Bodhi Tree ...
Sculpture of a Bodhisattva at Ghenjam (Ghenjan), Gaya District. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
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Genre: Architectural Photography Described in 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal. Revised and corrected up to 31st August 1895' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 326-327: 'About a mile-and-a-half from Kispa, to the north-east, there is a village called Ghenjan, on the top of a large mound. Here there is ...
Statue of Buddha at Kauwa Dol Hill. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View of partially excavated seated Buddha image: '...The most prominent one is of Buddha, 7 feet in height, and 7½ feet broad, and which is now worshipped as Bhim Sen. The face is 16 inches broad...' (Cunningham and Garrick, op. cit., p.48). Photograph probably...
Group of statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas excavated at Lorian Tangai, Peshawar District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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Large group of perhaps 50 statues and fragments collected at Loriyan Tangai, arranged for photography in the open air. Exhibited Museum of Sydney. Imagining India, 16 May - 17 August 1997. Gandharan art.