Rare Images Of Ancient Odisha

Entrance to the Jagannatha Temple Photographed: 1865 Photograph of the Lion Gateway (Singhadwara) of the Jagannatha Temple at Puri from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections: India Office Series (volume 21, 'a' numbers), taken by Henry Dixon in the early 1860s.

The Lion Gateway (Singha Dwara) of the Jagannath Temple Photographed : 1870 Photograph of the Lion Gateway (Singhadwara) of the Jagannatha Temple at Puri, taken by an unknown photographer around 1870. Puri, a town on the east coast of India in the state of Orissa.

General view from the south-east of the Jagannath Temple Photographed : 1892 General view from the south-east of the Jagannatha Temple, Puri from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections, taken by William Henry Cornish in c.1892.

Close view of the Lion Gate and Aruna-stambha of the Jagannath Temple Photographed : 1892 Photograph of the Lion Gateway (Singhadwara) of the Jagannatha Temple at Puri, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections, taken by William Henry Cornish around 1892.

General view of the Dol-Mandapa Photographed : 1890 Photograph of the Dol-Mandapa in the Jagannatha Temple Complex at Puri, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections, taken by Poorno Chander Mukherji in the 1890s.

Puri Sri Jagannath temple

Puri BadaDanda

Statue of one of the two horses near the ashvadavara

Statue of a lion rearing over an elephant, near the simhadvara

Group of sculptured pilaster figures representing amorous scenes

General view from the south of the mandapa

Close view of doorway in the eastern façade of the mandapa

Photograph of the Elephant statues near the gajadvara

Photograph of a close view of the the eastern façade of the mandapa

Close view of right half of west façade and roof of the mandapa

Close view of the inner gateway of the Jagannatha Temple Photograph of the gateway of the Jagannatha Temple at Puri, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections, taken by Poorno Chander Mukherji in the 1890s

Entrance and left half of east façade of the refectory of the Jagannath Temple Photograph of the Jagannatha Temple at Puri, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections, taken by Poorno Chander Mukherji in the 1890s.

Group of sculptured pilaster figures representing amorous scenes