General view of large temple at Khalari, Raipur District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Described in J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour...in the Central Provinces, 1873-74' (A.S.I. vol. VII, Calcutta, 1878), pp. 156-157: 'The temple is Saivic, and a figure of Ganeça keeps watch over the entrance, which faces east. The temple is particularly plain, by ...
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...
General view of tank and temples, Raipur. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography View across the dry tank towards shrines, presumably the group referred to in J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour...in the Central Provinces, 1873-74' (A.S.I. vol. VII, Calcutta, 1878), p. 168: 'About half-way between Rayapura and Drug [west of Raipur] are a few tem...
Side view of the Lakshmana Temple, Sirpur, Raipur District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Described in J. D. Beglar, 'Report of a tour...in the Central Provinces, 1873-74' (A.S.I. vol. VII, Calcutta, 1878), pp. 185-186, and also in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82' (A.S.I. vol. XVII, Calcutt...
Back view of the Lakshmana Temple, Sirpur, Raipur District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Reproduced as a lithograph in Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82' (A.S.I. vol. XVII, Calcutta, 1884), pl. xvi.
Close view of entrance to sanctum, showing sculpture detail on architrave of doorway, Lakshmana Temple, Sirpur. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik