Pandya: Chidambaram, Great Mandapa, Elephant

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dc.contributor.author	Frederic, Louis
dc.contributor.author	Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatial	India (Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu)
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-15T01:43:36Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-15T01:43:36Z
dc.date.created	1959
dc.identifier	ANUA 682-1859
dc.identifier.other	IM-1022
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176855
dc.description	Portrayed in natural size in low relief on the walls of the "mandapa of a thousand pillars". Lower left, frieze of dancers and musicians. This elephant, which appears to have seized someone in its trunk might be a dvarapala, or door-guardian.
dc.format.extent	35mm
dc.format.medium	mounted transparency
dc.format.medium	b&w
dc.format.mimetype	image/tiff
dc.language.iso	en_AU
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Basham Collection
dc.subject	Chola, Pandya, etc.
dc.subject	architecture
dc.subject	stone sculpture
dc.subject	book scan
dc.title	Pandya: Chidambaram, Great Mandapa, Elephant
dc.type	Image
local.description.notes	Source: Frederic, L. Indian Temples & Sculpture, Thames & Hudson, London, 1959. Illus. 224, p.261
dc.date.updated	2019-10-15T01:43:36Z
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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