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Varaha Cave Temple

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Name

248931_sv.jpg

Size

1.22 MB

Format

JPEG

Checksum (MD5)

bb1789564f1333112cc52bdaf21ddced

Creator(s)
unknown (Indian (South Asian))
Time period
creation date: ca. 650
Location
Site: Mamallapuram (India)
Cultural context
Hindu
Description
detail, bas-relief featuring Varaha lifting Bhu Devi, the mother earth, 1967
Work type
Temple, Cave architecture
Medium
rock
Keywords
Type
Image
Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by G. E. Kidder Smith
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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