Small statues in the temple at Ghenjam. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Group of Hindu and Buddhist statues, listed as 'Shiva and Parvati, Ganesha, Vishnu, Naga-Kanya, Avalokiteshvara and Tara.' Credited to beglar, but possibly by Garrick (see note at print 73). Duplicate of Photo 1002 (74).
General view of Kauwa Dol Hill, Gaya District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across fields towards the hill. 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 320-321. Reproduced as a lithograph in Alexander Cunningham and H. B. W. Garrick, 'Report of tours in North and South Bihar, in 1880-81' (A.S.I. vol. XVI, Calc...
Rock sculptures at foot of Kauwa Dol Hill, Gaya District. Photographer: Henry Baily Wade Garrick
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General view of Hindu and Buddhist sculptures carved in niches on massive boulders at the foot of the hill. Reproduced as a lithograph in Alexander Cunningham and H. B. W. Garrick, Report of tours in North and South Bihar, in 1880-81 (A.S.I. vol. XVI, Calcutta, 1883), pl. xv, and described p. 48...
Ruined Buddhist monastery at foot of Kauwa Dol Hill, Gaya District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of site: little is visible apart from a number of pillars. 'Kauwa-Dol has been identified by Mr Beglar with the site of the Silabhadra Monastery of Hwen Thsang, an assignment with which I [Cunningham] fully concur' (Cunningham and Garrick, op. cit.,...
Statue of Buddha at Kauwa Dol Hill. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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'...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 taken in the 1870s: Cunningham, writing after his 1880 visit, states that '...Mr Be...
The great brick Shiva Temple at Konch, Gaya District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 330-331. Alexander Cunningham and H. B. W. Garrick, 'Report of tours in North and South Bihar, in 1880-81' (A.S.I. vol. XVI, Calcutta, 1883), pp. 52-61, for detailed description. Printed from a damaged...
General view of ruined temple, Mandaur, Gaya District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards ruined temple, with sculptured slabs in middleground. 'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (Calcutta, 1896), pp. 314-317: 'The ruins here, six miles north of Gaya on the Phalgu River, consist of a temple of which some pillars are still sta...