Close view of entrance to sanctum, showing sculpture detail on architrave of doorway, Lakshmana Temple, Sirpur. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Subjects = doorways; Indian architecture; Indian sculpture
Close view of two statues lying outside the Lakshmana Temple, Sirpur. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography The figure on the right, a statue Vishnu lacking the head, is reproduced as a lithograph in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Central Provinces and Lower Gangetic Doab in 1881-82' (A.S.I. vol. XVII, Calcutta, 1884), pl. xvii. Subjects = Hindu deities; In...
Statue inside the Pathain Devi Temple, Pithaora. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the full-length standing statue, described in A. Cunningham, 'Report of a tour in the Central Provinces in 1873-74 and 1874-75' (A.S.I. vol IX, Calcutta, 1879), pl. vi, and described p. 31: 'The pedestal of the enshrined statue occupies the whole...
Hall of Hindu pillars inside the Arhai-din-ka-Jhonpra Mosque, Ajmer. Photographer: Baudesson, O.S.
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Genre: Architectural Photography Showing the pillars taken from older Hindu and Jain temples. Each column is made from three separate pillars placed one on top of the other to gain extra height. Printed from a broken glass plate. Subjects = Indian architecture
Interior of portico showing carved ceiling of the Ghateshvara Temple, Baroli. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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Genre: Architectural Photography Printed from a broken glass plate. Fergusson (op. cit., p. 133) described the porch as being 'sculptured with a richness and complexity of design almost unrivalled, even in those days of patient prodigality of labour.' Subjects = Indian architecture; Indian sc...