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Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 550-600 CE

Subject: Unfinished and choked up cave complex

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 550-600 CE

Subject: Facade, general view, restored by ASI

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 550-600 CE

Subject: Porch, left end pilaster detail

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 550-600 CE

Subject: Porch, view towards left

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 550-600 CE

Subject: Porch, left end shrine doorway

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 550-600 CE

Subject: Porch, central shrine doorway

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 550-600 CE

Subject: shrine, doorway from inside with sockets

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 550-600 CE

Subject: Porch, unfinished cell or shrine complex

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 400-599 CE

Subject: a. Facade Vithika, b. Facade Vithika

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 400-599 CE

Subject: Doorframes to minor cells

Site Name: Ghatotkacha

Date: ca 460-495 CE

Subject: Frieze of elephants on top (ruined)

Site Name: Barshi-Takli

Date: 1177 CE (Saka 1098)

Subject: Elephant

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Date: 100-299 CE

Subject: Taming of Nalagiri

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Date: 100-299 CE

Subject: Taming of Nalagiri, fragment

Site Name: Elephanta

Date: 501-600 CE

Subject: Lajja Gauri: This image of Lajja Gauri is completely anthropomorphic with a human female head and all parts, with legs in uttanapad (birth giving) pose and arms held up to the side.

Site Name: Mahabalipuram/saluvankuppam

Date: ca 700-728 CE

Subject: Recumbent elephants with niches at left

Site Name: Mogalrajapuram

Date: 600-699 CE

Subject: Front elevation, plan and section

Site Name: Bodhgaya

Date: 100-1 BCE

Subject: Railing Pillar originally enclosing the Mahabodhi temple precinct.The half-medallion at the top depicts a figure of Gajalakshmi, standing on lotus, bathed by two elephants on either side.

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

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: Sarnath

Date: 299-200 BCE

Site Name:

Date: 1800-1899

Subject: Horse. The offering of votive horses and elephants to the village deities is a common phenomenon of rural Odisha. Such sculptures are made as offerings to a deity and left untended where they are placed, under a tree, near a pond or river, or in a grove. They accumulate, they decompose, and others take their place. The seven pieces of the horse are made separately on the wheel and then joined together adding the molded ears and tail. Side view of horse.

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Date: 1800-1899

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