Photo 212/1(14)

Genre: Architectural Photography

View looking across the tank of the Jambukeshvara Temple at Srirangam, with a shrine in the centre and a columned mandapa on the far side. On of the temple gopuras can be seen on the skyline in the background. Lyon's 'Notes to accompany a series of photographs prepared to illustrate the ancient architecture of southern India' (Marion and Co., London, 1870), edited by James Fergusson, gives the following description of this photograph: '263 - About a mile from the entrance of the Great Pagoda, illustrated in photographs 251 to 262, is one dedicated to Shiva, under the title of lord of the Jambu, or rose-apple. Though smaller than that dedicated to Vishnu, having only three enclosures instead of seven, it has the advantage of having been built at once from one design, and in a better age than the greater part of the larger pagoda. The whole of this temple probably belongs to the 16th century. On one side of the tank shown in the Photograph, is seen the facade of the principal porch, and on the right the gateway leading to the sanctuary.' Another copy at Photo 1000/29(2913).