Frederic, LouisPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham2019-10-152019-10-151959IM-287http://hdl.handle.net/1885/176211This 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.35mmmounted transparencyb&wimage/tiffen-AUCentral India & Western India-- Khajurahoarchitecturestone sculpturebook scanMahadeva Temple, Fantastic Beast, 10th-11th Centuries2019-10-15This item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.