Descent of Ganga
- Title:
- Descent of Ganga
- Alternate Title:
- Penance of Arjuna
- Collection:
- Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia
- Photographer:
- MacDougall, Robert D. (Robert Duncan), 1940-1987
- Date:
- ca. 625-675
- Location:
- Mamallapuram (Tamil Nadu, India)
- Country:
- India
- ID Number:
- MCD_00640
- Call Number:
- B-Q5 Mam 1.32 DesG 7-3
- File Name:
- MCD_00640.jpg
- Work Type:
- reliefs (sculptures)
- Subject:
- rock-cut architecture
Shiva
reliefs (sculptures)
devas
Bhagiratha
Ganga - Image View Description:
- Sculpt.: relief: view from left with ground piece
- Description:
- Depicts the descent of the goddess Ganga due to Bhagiratha's penance and/or Arjuna performing penance to get Shiva's help in war. Dates: mid 7th C. Built by King Narasimha Mahamalla (630-680).
- Notes:
- Image and original data maintained by the Cornell University Library. This digital collection is a result of a long-term collaboration between Professor Bonnie G. MacDougall, Department of Architecture and Margaret N. Webster, Director of the George W. & Adelaide Knight Visual Resources Facility in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
- Source:
- MacDougall, R. D.
Grove Dictionary of Art - Cite As:
- Bonnie and Robert MacDougall papers, #15-2-4397. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This image is protected by copyright, and the copyright holder is Cornell University. It is licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Images in the Beyond the Taj collection were created between roughly 1960-1987, and were digitized by Cornell University Library from a variety of negatives, positives, and slides retained by the Estate of Bonnie MacDougall. Permission is required for any use that extends beyond what is authorized by the license, fair use, and/or other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell welcomes additional information about the items in this collection, including any additional information regarding rights holders. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu with any such information or to request permission to use any images from this collection. For additional information about how you may use materials from Cornell University Library’s Digital Collections, review our Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright).