Robert Gill
1868-1869
East inner colonnade from the court of the ruins at Mehekar (Mehkar), Buldana District, Berar

Photographic print
British Library
Courtesy of the British Library, Image number: 1000191956, Shelfmark: Photo 1000/19(1956)
 
Photograph of the ruined east inner colonnade at Mehekar (Mehkar), taken by Robert Gill in 1868-69 and described (by Gill) in Cousens, Central Provinces list (1897), p. 80: 'All that a few years ago represented the once fine temple of Mehkar was a picturesque ruin of standing columns and lintels, situated upon a very high basement or platform. The columns, judging from photographs, were of an old type and rather neat in design, and decorated with large lozenge-shaped ornament, conventional eaves, and bands of geese. These have now all disappeared.' It is probably this series of photographs to which Cousens refers.
 
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