Pillars dug up from ruined temple, Turturia, Bilaspur District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Three finely carved standing pillars. Reproduced as a lithograph in J. D. Beglar, 'Report of tours in the South-Eastern Provinces in 1874-75 and 1875-76' (A.S.I. vol. XIII, Calcutta, 1882), pl. xvii and described pp. 150-151: 'exquisitely handsome and curious pi...
General view of large temple at Narayanpur, Raipur District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the mandapa, with the tower of the sanctum beyond. Described in detail in J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour...in the Central Provinces, 1873-74' (A.S.I. vol. VII, Calcutta, 1878), pp. 193-195: 'These temples are of stone; the principal one con...
Torana or hindola in the village, Gyaraspur, Bhopal State. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Described in Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), p. 33: 'The building called Hindola is an ornamental entrance, or toran, leading to a Brahmanical temple. Hindola means simply a...