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 Krishna Mandapa, 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); mandapas; rock-cut temples; temples
General view of the entrance to the Pancha Pandava Mandapa, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing the six columns with lion bases of the uncompleted temple. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); mandapas; rock-cut te...
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...
General view of the entrance to the Varaha 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
General view of the façade of the Yamapuri or Mahishamardini Cave Temple, Mamallapuram Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography View from the right looking towards the columned façade of the temple, with the shrines partly visible behind. With four Indian men seated on the steps leading up to the temple. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of In...
View of the Olakkanatha Temple, a structural shrine above the Mahishamardini Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography Described in James Burgess, The cave temples of India (London, 1880), p. 147: 'Immediately above this cave is the fragment of a structural temple, which forms one of the most conspicuous objects in the landscape from whichever side it is seen. It is not, howeve...
Unfinished Cave Temple, Mamallapuram. Photographer: Rea, Alexander
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the entrance of the temple, which consists of three openings between two rough arches. The surrounding rock-face has been crudely cross-hatched to form incised squares. Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological ...
Unidentified 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; unidentified
