Mahadeva Temple, Fantastic Beast, 10th-11th Centuries

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Collections	Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Title:	Mahadeva Temple, Fantastic Beast, 10th-11th Centuries
Author(s):	Frederic, Louis Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Keywords:	Central India & Western India-- Khajuraho;architecture;stone sculpture;book scan
Series/Report no.:	Basham Collection
Description:	This is a small, ruined temple. Under the porch, which alone is intact, can be seen a fantastic beast attacking a woman. This theme, very frequent in the temples of the Khajuraho group and showing a fantastic beast, perhaps a lion, bringing down or being brought down by an armed woman, must have had some mythical significance which has now been forgotten.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176211
Other Identifiers:	ANUA 682-1215

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