Torana in front of a modern Jain temple, Sironi Khurd, Jhansi District. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the torana or gateway. The negative has been blocked out along the edges of the structure in order to separate the gateway from the background of trees. A. Führer, 'The Monumental Antiquities and Inscriptions in the North-Western Provinces and Ou...
Fragment of the arch of a sculptured Jain torana (reverse side), from Mathura. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
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Drawing of this piece reproduced in Vincent A. Smith, 'The Jain Stupa and other antiquities of Mathura' (Allahabad, 1901), pl. 19: 'There is nothing in the sculptures of this torana to indicate whether the ceremony depicted was Jain or Buddhist; but the fact that the slabs were found not far fro...
