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Photographs that can be shown, diagrams drawn for this corpus, and documents.

Photographs

Photograph from the 1880s showing the rock-cut Kailasa Temple at Ellora.

Temple in the 1880s 1880s

Color photograph of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi.

Present temple 14 November 2024

Photograph from the 1880s by William Henry Cornish showing the Konark Sun Temple mandapa from the east.

Mandapa from the east 1880s

Color photograph of the Somnath Temple at Prabhas Patan, beside the sea.

Present temple 4 August 2014

Albumen photograph from 1858 by Felice Beato showing the shaft of the Qutb Minar.

Minaret shaft 1858

Photograph from about 1868 by William Henry Cornish showing the Lion Gate of the Jagannath Temple at Puri.

Lion Gate Around 1868

Photograph from 1869 by Samuel Bourne of the Vishnu temple at Srirangam, titled with the colonial name Trichinopoly.

Temple in 1869 1869

Color photograph of the Kamakhya Temple on Nilachal hill in Guwahati.

Temple on the hill 16 May 2011

Color photograph of the eastern gopuram of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple.

Eastern gopuram 20 June 2013

Photograph from 1885 by Lala Deen Dayal showing the Great Stupa at Sanchi from the north.

Northern view, 1885 1885

Color photograph from 1989 of the Suchindram temple gopuram beside a tall wooden temple car, with people and a bus in the street.

Street, gopuram, and temple car January 1989

Albumen photograph from 1855 by Thomas Biggs showing the east front of the Durga Temple at Aihole.

East front 1855

Albumen photograph from the 1860s by Samuel Bourne showing the Taj Mahal at Agra from the east.

East view, 1860s 1860s

Color photograph of the Nagaraja Temple at Nagercoil, taken in January 2007.

Temple from outside 7 January 2007

Color photograph of the Lingaraja Temple tower in Bhubaneswar.

Temple tower 8 December 2013

Albumen photograph from 1858 by Linnaeus Tripe showing the east gopuram of the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.

East gopuram 1858

Photograph from 1868 by Edmund David Lyon showing the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur from the grounds.

Temple from the grounds 1868

Color photograph of a long pillared corridor at the Ramanathaswamy Temple, Rameswaram.

Pillared corridor 30 May 2013

Photograph from 1856 by Alexander John Greenlaw showing the Virupaksha Temple complex at Hampi.

Temple complex, 1856 1856

Photograph from the 1880s by William Henry Cornish showing the Konark Sun Temple mandapa from the south.

Mandapa from the south 1880s

Albumen photograph from 1858 by Robert and Harriet Tytler showing a distant view of the Qutb Minar near Delhi.

General view, 1858 1858

Photograph from 1869 by Samuel Bourne showing a gopura of the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur.

Gopura 1869

Albumen photograph from 1858 by Linnaeus Tripe showing the entrance to the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.

Temple entrance January–March 1858

Color photograph of a large tree in the Nagaraja Temple grounds at Nagercoil, with carved serpent stones set around its platform.

Grounds, tree, and serpent stones 18 February 2021

Photograph from 1888 by Lala Deen Dayal showing the Kailasa Temple at Ellora.

Deen Dayal view, 1888 1888

Photograph from about 1870 by Samuel Bourne showing a gopura of the Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam.

Gopura About 1870

Photograph from the 1890s showing the north entrance of the Jagannath Temple at Puri.

North entrance 1890s

Close color photograph of the white, densely sculpted upper storeys of the Suchindram temple gopuram against a blue sky.

Sculpted eastern gopuram 30 December 2006

Color photograph of the white, densely sculpted eastern gopuram of the Suchindram Thanumalayan Temple, with a palm and a lower entrance building in front.

Eastern gopuram and entrance 18 March 2007

Albumen photograph from about 1880 showing a painted pillared corridor in the Meenakshi Temple at Madurai.

Painted corridor About 1880

Photograph from 1869 by Samuel Bourne showing the Subrahmanya shrine in the Brihadisvara temple complex at Thanjavur.

Subrahmanya shrine 1869

Albumen photograph from about 1870 showing the royal gopuram of the Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam.

Royal gopuram About 1870

Photograph from the 1890s of a street near the Jagannath Temple at Puri.

Street beside the temple 1890s

Photograph from 1890 showing a carved doorway in the eastern side of the Konark mandapa.

Eastern doorway 1890

Photograph from the 1890s by Nicholas and Co. showing carved pillars inside the Meenakshi Temple at Madurai.

Interior pillars 1890s

Photograph from about 1880 by Bourne showing a temple tower, titled Eastern pagoda, Trichinopoly.

Eastern pagoda About 1880

Photograph from the 1890s of the Jagannath Temple at Puri.

Temple in the 1890s 1890s

Photograph of a white pillared mandapa standing in the Suchindram temple tank, with palms and tiled roofs behind it.

Temple tank and water mandapa 7 September 2008

Photograph of the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur, catalogued to the 1880s or 1890s. The photographer is not named.

Temple, photographer not named 1880s–1890s

Photograph from about 1890 showing a stone elephant at the elephant gateway of the Konark Sun Temple.

Elephant gateway About 1890

Photogravure from 1938 by Alfred Nawrath showing the pillared hall of the Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam.

Hall of a thousand pillars 1938

Photograph from about 1892 showing the Jagannath Temple at Puri from the east, with a bazaar in the foreground.

Temple from the east About 1892

Gelatin silver photograph from 1895 showing the temple tank and the south tower of the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.

Tank and south tower 1895

Photograph from the 1890s by Nicholas and Co. showing the Brihadisvara Temple and its grounds at Thanjavur.

Temple and grounds 1890s

Wide photograph of the Suchindram temple tank, with a mandapa in the water and the gopuram behind it.

Tank, mandapa, and gopuram 3 January 2021

Photograph from 1890 showing two stone horses beside the Konark Sun Temple.

Horse statues 1890

Photograph from 1923 showing the Golden Lily tank with the southern gopuram of the Meenakshi Temple behind it.

Tank and southern gopuram 1923

Photograph from about 1890 showing the left half of the west side and roof of the Konark mandapa.

West side of the mandapa About 1890

Postcard photograph from 1908 of the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur.

Postcard view 1908

Photograph from about 1892 by William Henry Cornish showing the Jagannath Temple at Puri from the south-east.

Temple from the south-east About 1892

Color photograph of the sculpted gopuram of the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur.

Gopuram 15 December 2010

Color photograph of the Jagannath Temple tower at Puri, rising behind a wall.

Temple tower 9 December 2013

Color photograph of a tall, sculpted gopuram at the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai.

Gopuram 3 February 2006

Diagrams

East elevation

Simplified elevation. The tower follows the photographs. The tank is visible in the 2008 and 2021 frames. Hall positions are still not taken from a survey.

HeritageVista interpretive diagram. Not a historical drawing.

Open diagram

Simplified site diagram

Top-down reading of published relationships. It is not a floor plan from a survey.

HeritageVista interpretive diagram. Not a measured plan.

Open diagram

Interpretive massing

Block model of the same features as the elevation and site diagram. Heights and depths are arrangements. The tower steps are not a storey count and are not a measured height.

HeritageVista interpretive massing. Not a measured model.

Open diagram

Documents

Identification note

The article identifies the Vishnu temple in Thiruvananthapuram. This record does not describe the vaults or store a photograph.

Padmanabhaswamy Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the Shiva temple at Hampi. The Greenlaw 1856 photograph is a separate source.

Virupaksha Temple, Hampi · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the mausoleum at Agra. The Bourne photograph stored here is a separate source.

Taj Mahal · paraphrase

Wikipedia compilation

The article describes an east-facing complex, an eastern tower it counts as eleven storeys and about 44 metres, musical pillars in the Alankara Mandapa, a large Hanuman, and later Nayaka and Travancore work. It also gives more than one account of who administers the temple. Those statements are stored as secondary claims.

Suchindram Thanumalayan Temple · paraphrased

Identification note

The article identifies the Shiva temple at Prabhas Patan. This record does not adopt a chronology of destruction and rebuilding, and it stores no photograph.

Somnath Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the Vishnu temple on Srirangam island. This record does not copy the building history. The photographs stored here are a separate source.

Ranganathaswamy Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the Shiva temple on Rameswaram island. Legendary installation by Rama is not treated as a construction date.

Ramanathaswamy Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the minaret in Mehrauli and its place in the Quwwat-ul-Islam complex. This record does not copy the building chronology. The 1858 photographs are a separate source.

Qutb Minar · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the temple at Thanjavur and its Shaiva dedication. This record does not copy the building history. Tripe’s 1858 photographs are not stored. Later photographs are a separate source.

Brihadisvara Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the temple in Nagercoil, names Nagaraja as the presiding deity, and discusses Jain figures and later Hindu shrines. This corpus stores that identification. It does not transcribe the inscriptions the article cites.

Nagaraja Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the temple in Madurai and names Meenakshi and Sundareswarar. The photographs stored here are a separate source.

Meenakshi Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the Shiva temple in Bhubaneswar. This record does not store a photograph or a height.

Lingaraja Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the Surya temple at Konark. This record does not copy the building history. The photographs stored here are a separate source.

Konark Sun Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the Shiva temple in Varanasi. Disputed earlier phases are left unresolved because no inscription edition is stored.

Kashi Vishwanath Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the goddess temple on Nilachal hill in Guwahati. No photograph is stored.

Kamakhya Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the rock-cut Shiva temple at Ellora. The nineteenth-century photographs stored here are a separate source.

Kailasa Temple, Ellora · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the temple at Puri and distinguishes the legendary founder from the Eastern Ganga rebuilding. The photographs stored here are a separate source.

Jagannath Temple · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies the Buddhist monuments at Sanchi. Waterhouse’s 1861–62 photographs are known from museum catalogues. The Deen Dayal photograph stored here is a separate source.

Great Stupa, Sanchi · paraphrase

Identification note

The article identifies an early temple at Aihole, describes an apsidal plan, and explains the name Durga from a later lookout rather than from the goddess. The 1855 photograph is a separate source.

Durga Temple, Aihole · paraphrase

Journal description of the tower and pillars

The paper describes an east-facing temple, a seven-storey gopuram, musical pillar groups (its count of the smaller pillars differs from other guides), and a Hanuman figure it describes as over 16 feet. It is used as a conflicting description of the same features, not as a survey.

Suchindram Thanumalayan Temple · paraphrased

Pillai monograph, not yet extracted

The standard monograph is identified and reserved. No chapter has been extracted, so no claim in this PoC is footnoted to a page of the book.

Suchindram Thanumalayan Temple · referenced_only

Inscriptions reported, not transcribed

Secondary literature reports early inscriptions at Suchindram, including Venad-period records. No estampage or transcript is stored here, so inscriptional claims are not treated as read.

Suchindram Thanumalayan Temple · referenced_only