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Site Name: Amaravati

Date: ca 199-100 BCE; later additions: ca 1-399 CE

Subject: Stupa Pillar Relief or Drum Fragment, Conception of the Buddha (Elephant Descends From Heaven)

Site Name: Pandrethan

Date: ca 900-999 CE

Subject: Elephant stylobate, southeast side

Site Name: Amaravati

Date: ca 199-100 BCE; later additions: ca 1-399 CE

Subject: Elephant Capital, Stupa Pillar

Site Name: Karla

Date: ca 100-140 CE

Subject: Pillar capital (R-12): couples on elephants

Site Name: Baliguda

Date:

Subject: Dipa Hati. This is a lamp shaped as an elephant. Dhokra is a craft made by the lost-wax casting technique in which a molten metal is poured into a mold that has been created by means of a wax model. This craft has a tribal lineage and flourishes in the tribal belts of Odisha. This object was procured from District Industries Centre Phulbani that procured it from Sri Banu Nayak.

Site Name: Sarnath

Date: 299-200 BCE

Subject: Lion capital, detail of abacus showing an elephant

Site Name: Sarnath

Date: 299-200 BCE

Subject: Lion capital. The capital shows four addorsed lions mounted on a round abacus. On the abacus are four animals-a bull, a lion, an elephant, and a galloping horse–separated from one another by a wheel, a reference to the Buddha’s turning of the Wheel of the Law. A large stone wheel’s rim is supported on the backs of the four addorsed lions. The wheels are also a symbol of the ideal universal monarch, the chakravartin used by Ashoka, who sought to project himself as a chakravartin.

Site Name: Baliguda

Date:

Site Name: Sarnath

Date: 299-200 BCE

Site Name: Sarnath

Date: 299-200 BCE

Subject:

Lion capital. The capital shows four addorsed lions mounted on a round abacus. On the abacus are four animals-a bull, a lion, an elephant, and a galloping horse–separated from one another by a wheel, a reference to the Buddha’s turning of the Wheel of the Law. A large stone wheel’s rim is supported on the backs of the four addorsed lions. The wheels are also a symbol of the ideal universal monarch, the chakravartin used by Ashoka, who sought to project himself as a chakravartin.

Site Name: Sarnath

Date: 299-200 BCE

Site Name: Ahmedabad

Date: ca 1800-1899 CE

Subject: North corridor, lintel adorned with a frieze of elephants holding lotus stalks in their trunks

Site Name: Dhaka

Date: 1980-1989 CE

Subject: Leopard elephant, MC

Site Name: Karla

Date: ca 100-140 CE

Subject: Pillar capital (L-14): couples on elephants

Site Name: Anuradhapura

Date: ca 600-699 CE

Subject: Northern bath, west face, south end, relief on rock showing elephants in lotus pond

Site Name: Konark

Date: ca 1236-1264 CE; restored in ca 1900-1999 CE

Subject: Nat Mandir (dance hall), from east: Lions on elephants; The Sun Temple, conceived as a chariot of the sun god pulled by seven horses, has 24 carved wheels, each approximately 10 feet in diameter.

Site Name: Konark

Date: ca 1236-1264 CE; restored in ca 1900-1999 CE

Subject: War elephants; The Sun Temple, conceived as a chariot of the sun god pulled by seven horses, has 24 carved wheels, each approximately 10 feet in diameter.

Site Name: Nadkalsi / Nadkalasi

Date: ca 1000-1099 CE

Subject: Rangamandapa, pillar, detail: medallion with rider on elephant

Site Name: Bhubaneswar

Date: ca 650 CE

Subject: Gudhamandapa, west wall, lintel above jali, elephants

Site Name: Bhubaneswar

Date: ca 650 CE

Subject: Gudhamandapa, west wall, lintel above jali, elephants

Site Name: Nadkalsi / Nadkalasi

Date: ca 1000-1099 CE

Subject: Rangamandapa, pillar, detail: medallion with rider on elephant

Site Name: Mount Abu

Date: 1230 CE

Subject: Jina shrine at southwest corner of sanctuary, left side, base: center elephants; Dedicated to the 22nd Tirthankara Shri Nemi Nathji. Built by the two brothers, Vastu Pala and Tej Pala, both ministers of a local ruler.

Site Name: Dhaka

Date: 1980-1989 CE

Subject: Tiger attack elephant, Bongsal Road

Site Name: Ellora

Date: 756-773 CE

Subject: Row of elephants supporting the temple; The cave if dedicated to Siva and is also called Kailasha or Kailash; after the mountain abode of Siva and Parvati.

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