The great Stone Bull, Tanjore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Photograph of the Stone Bull in the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. Side view of the great Nandi sculpture in the Brihadishvara temple at Tanjore (Thanjavur).
Interior of Kuje-Lhakhang: with hole supposed to have been caused by the reclining of the first Guru Rimpoche [near Jakar, Bhutan]. Photographer: White, John Claude
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of altar in Kuje-Lhakhang Monastery, with Buddha images and other religious objects.
Buddha from Aingere. [Corrected caption: Digambara Jain image of the Tirthankara Parshavanatha, Annigeri]. Photographer: William Henry Pigou.
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Image cropped from a larger negative. Identified in negative as Annigeri. For other prints from this negative, see Photo 1000/9(1018) and Photo 207(44).
Group of sculptures from Bodh Gaya. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
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Genre: Architectural Photography Group of sculpture slabs photographed against a wall at Bodh Gaya. The caption identifies: '2 Adityas, 2 Shiva and Parvatis, 2 Ganeshas, 1 Vishnu, 1 female statue of uncertain meaning and fragments of 3 other statues.' Now in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Credite...
Group of terracotta figures from Bodh Gaya. Photographer: Garrick, Henry Baily Wade
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Genre: Architectural Photography A very dark print, group of terracotta images of Hindu deities and Buddha images. The top right-hand piece is reproduced in Alexander Cunningham, 'Mahabodhi or the Great Buddhist Temple under the Bodhi Tree at Buddha-Gaya' (London, 1892), pl. xxiv (b). Credited ...
Sculpture of Bodhisattva at Ghenjam (Ghenjan), Gaya District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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'List of Ancient Monuments in Bengal' (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 a very fine statue of Buddha, the ascetic, with representations of the birth, teaching and de...
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).
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...
