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Photo 1003(2602)

Record Id:

040-003138967

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003136414

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026192714.0x0009f8

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100147920788.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 1003(2602)

Title:

Free-standing pillar, Balagamve. Photographer: Cousens, Henry

Scope & Content:

Genre: Architectural Photography

Reproduced as a text illustration in Henry Cousens, 'The Chalukyan architecture of the Kanarese Districts' (A.S.I. vol. XLII, New Imperial Series, Calcutta, 1916), fig. 41, and described p. 146: '...a very interesting column in the middle of the village. It stands upon a raised mound, and reaches a height of over thirty feet, although the breadth of the shaft measures no more than fifteen inches. The top is finished off with a spreading octagonal moulded capital, which is surmounted by a broad abacus or slab. Upon this stands a statue of the fabulous two-headed bird, the ganda-bherunda, supposed to have been the mortal enemy of elephants and to have fed upon their flesh...An inscription on the base of the column records its erection...in Saka 969 (A.D. 1047)...'

Subjects =Indian architecture, pillar

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003136414
040-003138967

Is part of:

Photo 1003 : Archaeological Survey of India Collections: Indian Museum Series (Duplicates)

Photo 1003(2602) : Free-standing pillar, Balagamve. Photographer: Cousens, Henry

Hierarchy:

032-003136414[2551]/040-003138967

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1003

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100147920788.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)

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Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1879

End Date:

1881

Date Range:

c 1880s

Era:

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