Mahabalipuram. Arjuna's Penance

Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Mahabalipuram. Arjuna's Penance

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dc.contributor.author	Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatial	India (Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu)
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-15T01:38:12Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-15T01:38:12Z
dc.date.created	circa 1970s
dc.identifier	ANUA 682-1790
dc.identifier.other	IM-952
dc.identifier.other	2
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176786
dc.description	The carvings in the Mahabalipuram monument are a veritable microcosm of gods, lions, angels, men, bears, deer, elephants and innumerable sorts of other living things which move from two directions - left and right - toward the center of the cleft (and the main channel of the water-fall). Beginning with the upper levels of this left sectional detail are many winged celestial beings racing toward the centre of the stone's composition, and beneath them, walking on the area of man's material existence, are earth deities, dwarfs, lions, deer, and bears. At the far right, standing in a pirouette position, which is actually an ascetic pose, is the petitioner Bhagiratha, who is gazing at the sun. His attitude is repeated in a charming detail of an 'ascetic cat' nearer to the cleft at the center of the monument on the right portion. We Must pay particular attention to the style expressed in the Mahabalipuram monument while considering its iconography, for the material of the stone itself dictates, for the most part, the handling of the cutting. This granite is very hard and necessitates a broad silhouette-like treatment of individual figures. -- Upper left portion.
dc.format.extent	35mm
dc.format.medium	mounted transparency
dc.format.medium	b&w
dc.format.medium	sepia
dc.format.mimetype	image/tiff
dc.language.iso	en_AU
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Basham Collection
dc.subject	Pallava-- Mahabalipuram (Mamallapuram) - Pallava
dc.subject	architecture
dc.subject	stone sculpture
dc.subject	slide set
dc.title	Mahabalipuram. Arjuna's Penance
dc.type	Image
dc.date.updated	2019-10-15T01:38:12Z
dc.provenance	Digitised by the Australian National University in 2019
dc.rights.license	This item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.
Collections	Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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