Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculptured figure of Durga trampling the buffalo demon Mahishasura, on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Doorway on the east side of the [Hoysaleshvara] Temple. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a doorway of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid, flanked by elaborately carved guardian figures. Oakeley's note points out the cobweb visible in the doorway, no doubt to emphasize the definition achieved in his photographs.
Another series of buttresses on the west north-west side of the builoding, showing the full height of the [Hoysaleshvara] Temple. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of a section of the sculptured facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
An Apsara dancing to the Tomtom, played by the two grotesque figures on each side. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the dancing figure of an apsara, flanked by two small figures with drums, on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid.
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the sculptured figure of the dwarf incarnation (Vamana) of Vishnu, on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid. He is seen here as Trivikrama, with one leg to the sky, the other resting on the earth.
Parvati or Lakshmi. Photographer: Oakeley, Richard Banner
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Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of sculpture on the facade of the Hoysaleshvara Temple, Halebid: 'The figure is too much mutilated to enable me to decide which of the two Goddesses it is meant to represent.'