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Karla Cave: carvings on side of porch

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Authors

Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Abstract

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At the ends of the porch, over the elephants and the frieze of the Guptan Buddhas, are bands of carvings repeating the vedika and chaitya window motifs like so many tiny facades in the side of a great cliff, The effect produced is a screen of tiny chaitya windows, none of which is intending to emit light but rather intending to be sculpted by light as it falls across the surface of the wall, The very simple repetition of forms and their brittle wooden appearance suggests the wooden prototypes from which they were derived, [formerly IA-486, number crossed out and replaced with IA-475(8)]

Keywords

Pre-Classical Cave Temples, Kanheri, Karadh, Karli, Kondane, Kuda, architecture, stone sculpture, mounted transparency set

Citation

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/163189

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Basham Photographs

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Image

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Basham Collection

Date created

circa 1970s

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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.

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