Report On Elura Cave Temples and Bramhanical and Jaina Caves in Western India

SR No.: 011091
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1883
Total Pages: 209
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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Ex
AURANGA
OF THE
Y
REPORT
ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN INDIA.
AND
THE ELURA CAVES
OTHER BRAHMANICAL AND JAINA CAVE TEMPLES.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY: THE ELURA CAVES.
N the preceding volume the description of the more notable groups of Buddhist Rock Temples, as given in the work on The Cree Temples of Iulia, was considerably amplified by additional details and numerous illustrations, which will enable the architect and student to form a tolerably accurate idea of the style and character of the plans and ornamentation, as well as of the sculptures of these ancient and interesting works. And in addition to these, the facsimiles and translations of the inseriptions will afford fresh materials of a trustworthy character for the epigraphist and philologist, with a certain amount of important information of historical importance. But even that volume by no means exhausts the illustrations that might have been given, especially from Ajanta, of the artistic decorative work on columns, doors, windows, and friezes, or of the extensive mythological sculptures found in such rich abundance there and at Kanheri.
The intention of the present volume is to apply the same process to the illustration of the remaining Rock Temples of Western India. The principal of these are-the whole of the well-known and magnificent group at Elurà, consisting of splendid representatives of the three classes-Bauddha, Brahmanical, and Jaina Cave Temples; the Brahmanical and Jaina Caves at Badâmi, at Aihole, at Ankai Tankai, and at Patna; and the Brahmanical Caves. chiefly at Jégééwari on Salsette Island, at Lona), and at Harischandragad. To give anything like a complete illustration of these Cave Temples, or even of those at Elurà alone, however. would occupy double the number of plates that can be given in this volume; but with those in The Cure Tempdes, as here supplementel, the reader my form some adequate conception of the characteristics of the different groups, and of the variety of architectural and mythological sculpture that is presented in these early monuments of the religious
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