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Title
Sarvanubhuti Relief Sculpture in Indra Sabha Temple, Ellora
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Former Title(s)
Figure from Indus Sabha
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Date
between 1793 and 1795
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Materials & Techniques
Gray wash, graphite, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
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Dimensions
Sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 3/4 inches (28.3 × 22.2 cm)
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Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering
Inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink: "Errole Caves | The Figure Opposite that mark'd X in the Cave | called Indur Subba - There are a great Many | Figures in this Cave called by the People Who Shew | Them the <...> Symbols of the Common Hindoo Worship | but which Gungarum concludes to be Figures of the Scivsa | System - He also says that ^ Raja | Veroo or Veloo ^ or Eeloo | was a Disciple | of the Scivsas Who being affiliated with some Cutaneous Disorder & being cur'd by Accidental Bathing in the Water of this Place consecrated | It & order'd These Wonderful Marks to be Executed in Commemoration | of his Relief & to preserve the Sanctity of the Place Which from Him | is continued to be called <...> Verole alias Errole - and there | is a Terab or <bathing> place of Purification ^ by Bathing & Alms | Which is called Scival Terat [Shivalaya Tirth] | near which is a Temple of Mahdew under the Upper station of | B | Grishmeyshwur [Grishneshwar] | rebuilt by Aliabyhe [Ahilyabai] the Dowager of the Holkar Family. It is said that | the Extraordinary Fort of Doulalabad originally called Davghiri is also the | Work of the above Raja. - This Figure & its Pair is frequently repeated | throughout the fabel"
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Accession Number
B1977.14.22340
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Classification
Drawings & Watercolors
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Collection
Prints and Drawings
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Subject Terms
elephant (animal) | Hinduism | religious and mythological subject | seated
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Associated Places
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Access
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
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Link
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye : An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p. 27, no. 53, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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