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Site Name: Angkor Thom, Royal Terraces

Date: ca 1100-1299 CE

Subject: Terrace of the Leper King, Outer Wall, from southeast; Northwest corner of Royal Square; north of the Terrace of the Elephants.

Site Name: Angkor Thom, Royal Terraces

Date: ca 1100-1299 CE

Subject: Terrace of the Leper King, Deities and Garudas; Northwest corner of Royal Square; north of the Terrace of the Elephants.

Site Name: Tampaksiring

Date:

Subject: Calendar Stone. The circle, triangle, elephant, and dragon represent particular numbers. The circle, symbolic of the sun, represents the number one.

Site Name: Goli

Date: ca 100-299 CE

Subject: Left: Chaddanta cuts off his tusks to give to the hunter; Right: the Queen faints at the site of Chaddanta's tusks

Site Name: Bishnupur (Vishnupur)

Date: ca 1655 CE

Subject: Plinth: Narrative Reliefs in four registers, from top to bottom: 1) Decorative band; 2) Procession of monkeys facing right; 3) Figures; 4) Elephants facing left and Tigers. Jor Bangla design based on indigenous huts built back to back.

Site Name:

Date: 1933-1939 CE

Subject: Mandapa, South side, lower register, window jali: Yali. Main deity is Vishnu; other deities enshrined in the temple are Siva, Durga, Ganesha, Hanuman, and Buddha. A yali is a composite animal with a lion's body and an elephant's trunk and tusks.

Site Name: Jaipur

Date: ca 1900 CE

Subject: Rajendra Pol (Gateway of Princes or Emperor's Gate), built under Madho Singh II (r. 1880-1922); Marble elephants at entrance, from southwest

Site Name: Amaravati

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

Subject: Half-Medallion Capped by Elephants and Bodhi Tree, Stupa Railing Pillar

Site Name: Amaravati

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

Subject: Upper left portion, Battle with Elephant, Stupa Coping Fragment with Narrative Scenes depicting Royal Activities

Site Name: Amaravati

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

Subject: Lower portion, Elephants and riders, Stupa Slab Fragment with Figures, Animals and Battle Scenes

Site Name: Mysore

Date: 1906 CE

Subject: Groups of State Elephants, Mysore

Site Name: Dhrangadhra

Date:

Subject: The three oriels are the traditional emblem of Shakti Devi, the ancestral goddess of the Jhala Rajputs. They commemorate the time a woman in a window caught up children to save them from a rampaging elephant. [Medal in honor of state's accession to India]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 5, Ritumat (Rtumat) Garden in Trikuta mountain; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 5, Ritumat (Rtumat) Garden in Trikuta mountain: Silver mountain; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 5, Ritumat (Rtumat) Garden in Trikuta mountain: Gajendra and gold mountain; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Gajendra and his herd entering the lake in Ritumat (Rtumat) Garden; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 6a, Gajendra seized by the crocodile; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 6a, Gajendra seized by the crocodile: baby elephants; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 6a, Gajendra seized by the crocodile: crocodile in lake; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 6b, Gajendra praying to Visnu; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 11, Visnu frees Gajendra from crocodile; Gajendra Moksham. The episode of Vishnu saving the king of elephants (Gajendra) from the jaws of the crocodile. [Gajendra Moksham (Liberation of Gajendra, the King of the Elephants)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: The oceans yielding the divine cow, Surabhi; the Apsaras; the white horse, Uccaihsravas; the white elephant, Airavata; the Parijata tree, and Laksmi; Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

Site Name: Udaipur

Date: 1648 CE

Subject: Folio 37, Fight of the disappointed Asuras: Indra mounted on Airavata (the white elephant); Kurma Avatara (Tortoise incarnation) of Vishnu. The episode of churning the ocean of milk for nectar. [Kurma Avatara (Incarnation as a Tortoise)]

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