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Subject Hero Stones

1. Photo 120(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 120(2)
Title:
Betgeri. Group of viragals (monumental stones). Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, New Imperial Series, Calcutta, 1926), plate 154a and described, p. 143: 'One of the largest and most interesting groups of these ston...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 120(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 120(3)
Title:
Borivali (Salsette). [Six] sculptured stones. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Row of sculptured viragals or memorial stones. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, New Imperial Series, Calcutta, 1926), plate 153, and described, p. 143:' There is an is...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 120(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 120(5)
Title:
Betgeri. Viragal with Kanarese inscription. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of a massive sculptured viragal or hero stone (some 12–13 feet high), with an Indian figure posed beside it to indicate scale. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, Ne...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 120(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 120(7)
Title:
Borivali (Salsette). Sculptured stones (second and third of group). Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of two of the viragals or sculptured memorial stones from a larger group. Reproduced in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan Architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (Archaeological Survey of India, vol. XLII, New Imperial Series, Calcutta, 1926), plate 154c...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 186(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 186(14)
Title:
Shashana at Davengere. Size 6 feet 11 inches by 2 feet 7 inches. Date―A.D. 1567. Photographer: Henry Dixon
Scope & Content:
Hero stone or viragal, with relief carvings of battle scenes, etc. carved in four registers. Print trimmed irregularly to object dimensions.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 186(15)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 186(15)
Title:
Shashana at Davengere. Size 6 feet 5 inches by 2 feet 4 inches. Date―[Undated]. Photographer: Henry Dixon
Scope & Content:
Hero stone or viragal, of sister of Cattaraja and Kucarasa, with relief carvings of battle scenes, etc. carved in three registers, with two panels of inscriptions. Print trimmed irregularly to object dimensions.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 186(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 186(16)
Title:
Shashana at Davengere. Size 5 feet 7 inches by 1 foot 10 inches. Date―A.D. 1189. Photographer: Henry Dixon
Scope & Content:
Hero stone or viragal, with relief carvings of battle scenes, etc. carved in four registers, with three panels of inscriptions. Print trimmed to object dimensions.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1000/26(2564)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/26(2564)
Title:
Mandapa of the Tripurantaka Temple, Balagamve. Photographer: Dixon, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View of pantiled temple mandapa, with 'hero stones' (virakals) standing in front of the building, and a European figure (Dixon?) sitting inside the mandapa. India Museum no. 621. Printed by W. Griggs, August 1872. Another copy at Photo 1000/23(2256a).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1868
Extent:
1 item

9. Photo 1000/29(2889)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1000/29(2889)
Title:
South Indian hero stone carving. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Print in poor condition, considerable fading. View of newly-excavated stone, precise location unknown. Received 'From Mrs Breeks July 1873'. India Museum no. 1107.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1873
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 1002/35(1900)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1002/35(1900)
Title:
Group of viragals (memorial stones), Betgeri. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Henry Cousens, 'Revised list of antiquarian remains in the Bombay Presidency ... originally compiled by J. Burgess' (Bombay, 1897), p. 128: '...several memorial stones which with others are clustered together in a walled enclosure in the village. These are elabo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item