A Temple Entrance at the Elephanta Caves
Also titled Een tempelingang in de Elephanta grotten
Samuel Bourne (Mucklestone, 1834–1912)
1870
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 238 mm x width 285 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
An inscription in the cave tells the story of Shiva and his consort Parvati playing a dice game near their palace on Mount Kalesh (in the Himalayas). While Parvati looks the other way, Shiva deliberately loses to his wife to make her happy.
