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Mudbidri, Mysore. 12th-15th cent. Temple pillar

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Authors

Fergusson, James
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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The interiors of temples are in marked contrast with the plainness of the exteriors. No two pillars seem alike, and many are ornamented to an almost fantastic extent. This seems an indication of their descent from a wooden original. Their massiveness is an excess that people accustomed to wooden architecture might employ when first replacing in stone supports which in wood would have appeared necessary to carry a heavy stone roofs.

Keywords

Jain remains, Mysore, architecture, diagrams/drawings, book scan

Citation

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176739

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Basham Photographs

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Image

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Basham Collection

Date created

1910

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This item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.

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