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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/379
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Scope & Content:: The stone water spout, Bais Dhara (22 taps) in Balaju, Kathmandu.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/136
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Scope & Content:: Ta baha located in Lagan. The façade of the shrine in this bahal has a long carved window-frame with five openings. The courtyard contains many chaityas and images of Buddhist divinities. According to an inscription, the shrine was built in 1579.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1972-1973
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/311
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Scope & Content:: View of Kathmandu. On the foreground is the temple of Seto Machindranath located in Jana Bahal and far right is Ghantaghar, the Clock Tower.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/369
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Scope & Content:: Vaisha Dev, or the Toothache Tree is a piece of wood just past Thahiti Tole, Kathmandu. Locals make an offering to the god of sore teeth by covering it in coins nailed to the stump.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/421
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Scope & Content:: The Golden Temple or Kwa bahal in Patan is the most outstanding example of the use of metal as a decorative adjunct. The guilded roofs of its imposing multi-tiered main shrine and subsidiary cupolas dominate its neighbourhood.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/426
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Scope & Content:: Than Bahi Bhagwan Bahal in Bhagwan Bahal in Thamel is one of the most ancient Buddhist monasteries in Kathmandu. The area, Thamel derives its name from this bahal.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/440
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Scope & Content:: Chwaspa Baha located in Maru Tol. This shrine of this bahal has a doorwar with a torana of Mahavairochana and is guarded by a pair of stone lions. On the first floor is a window-frame with five openings and a torana. Three short figure struts of Salabhanjikas support the wooden balcony. There ar...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1972-1973
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/456
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Scope & Content:: Ajudyoya Baha in Kwathandau Tole in Bhaktapur. It is a large three storey building with a votive stupa, a row of prayer wheels, carved windows and figur struts depicting Pancharaksha Debi, Bhairab, Pancha Buddha, Chaturmaharaja, Saptakshari, Kutakshara and Ashtasiddhika.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1972-1973
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/3/515
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Scope & Content:: Narayan Temple in Tum Baha in Patan. This three-storey brick temple is built on a two stage square base. There is a colonnade on four sides of the ground floor. The roofs are supported by carved struts depicting the incarnations of Vishnu.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1972-1973
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP838/1/7/4/12
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Scope & Content:: A vertige of demonolatry is the lakhe dancer, an ogre whose task it was once to procure sacrificial victims, here dancing during the Mataya festival in Patan.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1950s-1970s
Extent:: 1 Tiff image

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