VIRTUAL   EXHIBITION   SECTIONS
0 Index, Introduction, Entrance Panel...	1 History in the Making	2 Building India's Industries	3 The Land and the People	4 Dance and Temple Sculpture

Subsections of Section 4 (Dance & Temple Sculpture)
4.1:   Section Text & Classical Dances
4.2:   Temple Sculpture

Index to Section 4.2 Panel 23:   Temple Sculpture - captions and smaller image Panel 23:   Temple Sculpture - larger image

Panel 23:   Temple Sculpture (captions & smaller image) Top Row: Devnati, or "celestial dancer," Lingaraj temple, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, eastern India.   sf.154 Detail of sculpture from Konarak temple, Orissa.   sf.155 Detail of sculpture from Konarak temple, Orissa.   sf.156 Devnati, or "celestial dancer," Lingaraj temple, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa.   sf.157 Photographs © Sunil Janah
Middle Row: Carved terracotta temple, Bengal, eastern India.   sf.158 View from a window in the City Palace, Udaipur, Rajasthan, western India.   sf.159 The Mughal emperor Akbar's tomb in Sikandra, Uttar Pradesh, northern India.   sf.160 Sculpture from a temple in Belur, Karnataka, southern India.   sf.161 Photographs © Sunil Janah
Bottom Row: Entrance to Ellora caves, Maharashtra, western India. The caves contain magnificently carved rock temples of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain faiths.   sf.162 Details of erotic sculpture on a temple in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh, central India.   sf.163 Panels of sculpture on a temple in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh.   sf.164 Banshberia temple detail, Bengal, eastern India.   sf.165 Photographs © Sunil Janah     (See also larger image below.)

 

Panel 23:   Temple Sculpture (larger image)