Photo 1009/2(1415)

Genre: Architectural Photography

Captioned and numbered in the negative (caption faded). View looking across the tank towards some of the 50 or more Jain temples. Photographed by Cousens' assistants: 'Having received very indefinite information respecting remains in several places in the Damoh district, I sent out men with a camera and inscription materials to visit some of these places and bring me more accurate information. It turned out that none of these places were worth my journeying to. They were Kundal pur, Bamapura, Raneh, Hatta, Mugrone, Kanoda, and Narsinghgad...Kundalpur, twenty miles north-east of Damoh, of which place I had heard a good deal, contained several more or less modern Jaina temples, but of little interest to us, some of which are situated on the margin of a tank and others upon the hill above which surrounds it on two sides. The form of spire met with here, at Pathari, and several other places in these districts is very different to any met with in Western India. It is of a bee-hive pattern...' (Henry Cousens, 'Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey of Western India, for the months May 1893 to April 1894', pp. 6-7). Another copy of this print at Photo 1002 (1224).

Subjects = Archaeological Survey of India Collections; Archaeological Survey of India Collections (Western Circle); Indian architecture; Indian architecture (Jain); temples