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Girnar, General View.

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Authors

Frederic, Louis
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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A city of Jaina temples was built in the 12th century 650' below Mount Girnar in Saurashtra. The biggest temple, that of Neminatha, after the name of the 22nd tirthankara, which can be seen at the top of the photo, stands in the centre of a great quadrilateral, 197' by 128'. It is surrounded by galleries and small sanctuaries, numbering 70 in all. The temple itself has a sikhara of Khajuraho type with multiple subsidiary sikharas on its flanks. It also has a great mandapa and a porch. The city enclosure contains 20 or so temples. Photo: Denis Brihat.

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Gujarat & South Rajasthan, architecture, book scan

Citation

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176335

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Basham Photographs

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Image

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Basham Collection

Date created

1959

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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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