Project South Asia - Digital Image Archive

Digital Image Index Page, India
Architecture: Religious Buildings
Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh

View of Stupas 1 (right) and 3 (left), looking South
PSA Slide SAN0001
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 1996

View of Stupa 1 and northern gateway
PSA Slide SAN0002
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 1996

View of Stupa 1, from Northeast
PSA Slide SAN0003
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

View of Stupa 1 and northern gateway
PSA Slide SAN0004
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

View of northern gateway, Stupa 1, with person for scale
PSA Slide SAN0005
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 1996

View of northern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0006
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 1996

Rear architraves, northern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0007
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Detail of architraves - "Vessantara Jataka", front of northern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0013
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Detail of architraves - "Temptation by Mara", rear of northern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0010
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Detail of front of western pillar, northern gateway, second panel - "Buddha's Drives" and "Great Departure", Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0011
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Detail of front of eastern pillar, northern gateway, panels 3 and 4 - "Aerial Promenade" and "Royal Procession", Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0034
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

View of eastern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0008
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 1996

Detail of yaksha on eastern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0014
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Rear architraves, eastern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0015
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Rear architraves, eastern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0017
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Detail of elephants on southern pillar of eastern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0009
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Southern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0020
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Detail of rear architraves, southern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0021
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Front of western gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0023
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Rear architraves, western gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0022
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

View of Temples 17 and 18
PSA Slide SAN0025
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Temples 17 and 18
PSA Slide SAN0024
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Temple 17, view from northeast corner
PSA Slide SAN0042
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Temple 17, view from northwest corner
PSA Slide SAN0043
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Temple 17, view from rear
PSA Slide SAN0045
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Detail of lion capitals, Temple 17
PSA Slide SAN0044
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Temple 18, view from northeast
PSA Slide SAN0026
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Temple 18, view from north
PSA Slide SAN0027
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Temple 17, looking north
PSA Slide SAN0028
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Stupa 3, view from west
PSA Slide SAN0029
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

View of Monastery 51
PSA Slide SAN0030
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

View of Stupa 6
PSA Slide SAN0031
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Monk's cells, Monastery 37
PSA Slide SAN0032
Photographer: Roger Casey
Date: 1996

View of Stupa 1 and Temple 18, looking north
PSA Slide SAN0035
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 1996

Reliquaries (foreground), with view of stupas 5, 3, and 4 (left to right)
PSA Slide SAN0036
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

View of countryside from Sanchi hill, looking northwest
PSA Slide SAN0037
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

View of countryside from Sanchi hill, looking South
PSA Slide SAN0038
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 1996

View of countryside from Sanchi hill, looking southwest
PSA Slide SAN0039
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 1996

View of Stupa 2
PSA Slide SAN0040
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Seated Buddha inside eastern gateway, Stupa 1
PSA Slide SAN0046
Photographer: Karl J. Schmidt
Date: 2000

Plan of Hill Site, Sanchi
Source: Marshall, Sir John. A Guide to Sanchi. Calcutta: Government Printing Office, 1918, plate XIV.

Plan of site center, Sanchi
Source: Marshall, Sir John. A Guide to Sanchi. Calcutta: Government Printing Office, 1918, plate XV.

Elevation of Stupa 1, from South
Source: Marshall, Sir John. A Guide to Sanchi. Calcutta: Government Printing Office, 1918, plate II.

View of Stupa 1 from northeast, in 1918
Source: Marshall, Sir John. A Guide to Sanchi. Calcutta: Government Printing Office, 1918.

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