Street view in Tanjore with carved wooden car. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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View in Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. View looking along the street towards a temple gopura flanked by painted walls, with a large temple car in the roadway beside an open-sided pavilion.
Street view in Tanjore showing one of the native palaces. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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View in a street in Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. Street scene in Tanjore (Thanjavur), with figures posed in the roadway and an imposing mansion on the left.
The city of Tanjore from the ramparts. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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View of Tanjore from the ramparts, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. View looking across rooftops towards the Nayaka Palace at Tanjore (Thanjavur), with its distinctive temple-like pyramidal tower.
View showing the old moat and ramparts of Tanjore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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View of the old moat with ramparts on the right, towards the outer gopura of the Brihadishvara Temple on the skyline, Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869.
The ramparts of Tanjore with outer gopuram of the Pagoda. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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View of the old moat and ramparts, Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. The outer gopura of the Brihadishvara temple can be seen to the right of the moat.
The Great Pagoda and Stone Bull, Tanjore. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Photograph of the Great Pagoda and Nandi pavilion in the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. View from the south-east corner of the Brihadishvara Temple court at Tanjore (Thanjavur), looking towards the Nandi pavilion, with the main sanctuary of the temple beyond.
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).
The great Pagoda, Tanjore, from the ramparts. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Photograph of the Great Pagoda of the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. View looking towards the sanctuary tower of the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore (Thanjavur).
The great Pagoda at Tanjore with corridor on the northern side. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
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Photograph of the Great Pagoda of the Brihadishvara Temple at Tanjore, taken by Samuel Bourne in 1869. The Brihadishvara Temple built by the Chola king Rajaraja around 1010, is a monumental temple standing in the middle of a large courtyard surrounded by smaller shrines.