Group of Apsaras. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'This group which beautifully carved, is almost inclosed by projecting buttresses, and is in deep shade during the greater part of the day. It represents a number of nude female figures....
Parvati or Lakshmi. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'The figure is too much mutilated to enable me to decide which of the two Goddesses it is meant to represent.'
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the Nandi image in the pavilion of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'Being in deep shade, it was very difficult to obtain a good photograph of this statue...'
[Unidentified sculpture, Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.] Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the temple. Oakeley's note confesses, 'I have very great difficulty in identifying this figure,' and speculates that 'it may represent the destruction of the demon Tarika by Kartikeya.'
Varaha; or the Boar. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture of the Varaha, or boar incarnation of Vishnu, on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.