Photo 1002/10(473)

Genre: Architectural Photography

General view of the tree-shaded ruin. Reproduced as a lithograph in H.B.W. Garrick, Report of a tour through Behar, Central India, Peshawar, and Yusufzai 1881-82 (A.S.I. vol. XIX, Calcutta, 1885), pl. iii, and described pp. 14-15: '...one very curious early brick temple quite enveloped amid the spreading branches of a fine old pipal tree...The temple is almost unique, even as regards its genberal form, but the pinnacle, or final member, which crowns it, is particularly so, being in form a modification between a double-umbrella and double-mushroom. The glimpses of these ruins that were visible through the luxuriant foliage of the pipal, together with that handsome tree itself, had a very picturesque effect; but such a picture would be of little use for archaeological purposes, as it would not show the details of the building. Hence, I was obliged to cut away the branches from its eastern or front face in order to secure a view showing the two storeys of the temple, with its doorways of over-lapping bricks, also the very peculiar pinnacle, above mentioned.'

Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Indian Museum Series); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Hindu); temples

Location = Bihar; India; Mahadeopur