Ruined temple at Umga. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography 'Still higher up [than the 'altar'], and also facing the east, are the ruins of another temple, nearly as large as the one lower down, and in the same style, but nearly the whole of the superstructure has fallen down. On the path between the two temples there ar...
Cave temple at Sitamarhi, 25 miles east of Gaya. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the plain entrance of the cave, which is excavated from a massive free-standing granite boulder. P.C. Roy Chaudhury, Gaya volume of Bihar District Gazetteers (Bihar, 1957), p.338-339, writes that it is unclear whether the cave was made for ...
General view of the Vishnupada Temple, Gaya. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography Domed mandapa in the foreground, with sanctuary tower beyond. 'The temple of Vishnu Pad, the largest and most important in Gya, although comparatively modern, is a most imposing structure, but its confined situation prevents a good photograph being obtained of i...
General view of the Acyuta Temple, Gaya. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view looking up the hillside towards the temple. 'The final ceremony of Pind is performed at the Achyber Temple, which is siuuated near the foot of the Brahmajoni Hill and close to the Rukmini Tank. (descriptive notes by T.F. Peppé accompanying photograp...
General view of the temple at Umga. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography Some tears and staining in sky area of print. View from the hillside looking down onto the temple, with a free-standing pillar in front of the mandapa, and the shikara beyond. Peppé's tripod and other photographic equipment can be seen in front of the entrance t...
Small pavilion near the temple at Umga. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards small stone pavilion, with massive boulder in foreground. 'Higher up the same hill...there is a curious little altar with a huge boulder alongside it. Under the boulder sacrifices of kids and other animals are still made. Every available led...
Distant view of temple on hillside near Cheon. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the boulder-strewn hillside. The entrance to the temple seen in print 2836 can be seen about two-thirds of the way up the hill. 'A little platform [visible in this print] has been constructed in front of the cave, and a flight of rude steps led u...
General view of the southern temple at Dapthu. Photographer: Peppé, Thomas Fraser
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Genre: Architectural Photography Ruins of brick-built temple: '...it is the larger of the two temples, and as it stands at present it consists of a pillared hall, which was originally open, but was subsequently enclosed. The shrine has now nearly fallen, and in the enclosed porch there are a gr...
