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Colonel Thomas Biggs (1822-1905)
Jain temple at Belgaum in Karnataka 1855
Albumen print | 26.8 x 34.9 cm (image) | RCIN 2603935

Colonel Thomas Biggs (1822-1905)
Jain temple at Belgaum in Karnataka 1855
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Photograph of the second Jain temple in front of the fort at Belgaum in Karnataka. The temple consists of a shrine, a closed hall and an open hall. The shrine of the temple has walls with plain, horizontal mouldings and a stepped, pyramidal roof. The open hall or mandapa has a low parapet wall and a pyramidal roof, supported by lathe-turned pillars.
In northern Karnataka, temple construction proliferated during the period of the Chalukyas of Kalyana who were the chief power in the Deccan from the tenth to the twelfth centuries. -
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Albumen print
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26.8 x 34.9 cm (image)
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