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Description: | Pencil drawing heightened in white of the view of the Jain temples at Sonagiri in Madhya Pradesh by Frederick Charles Maisey, from an album of 60 drawings dated 1847-1854.
Sonagiri, is a site sacred to Digambara Jains situated 60 kilometres southeast of Gwalior. Around eigthy four white shrines with tall spires are dotted on top of a solitary hillock to mark the spot where the legendary King Nanganang Kumar and many Jain ascetic achieved liberation from the cycle of rebirth. The temple were built around 1300. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Maisey, Frederick Charles (1825-1892) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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