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A photograph of a stepped, tiered stone-coloured pillar or small shrine base with projecting ledges and corner finials, set outdoors in front of a yellow building with a dark blue sign board and green shrubs. No people are visible in the scene.

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Close-up photograph of a white-painted architectural column and its stepped corbels or brackets supporting a beam under a veranda or porch roof. The stacked, tiered cream-coloured mouldings project outward in layers, and a palm tree and foliage are visible at the left edge beyond the building. No people are present.Three pale granite shrine-like structures stand side by side on a dusty unpaved ground. Each has a domed or stepped top with carved finials, slender pillars and a flat ledge, and their base blocks are stacked on the ground. Behind them are a low tiled building, leafy trees, a pile of rubble and a bare path. No people are visible.Close-up photograph of a white-painted stone pillar in a temple-style colonnade, shot looking upward. The capital has a square carved rosette panel with a stylised flower of looping petals, flanked by bracket corbels with cup-like drops. Below, the shaft has stepped, tiered mouldings and projecting ledges. A dark wooden framed board hangs on the left wall, and another pillar with similar stepped carving appears in the background. No people are visible.Photograph looking up at carved granite architecture: a stone pillar with a stepped, lotus-like capital and a horizontal beam with scrolled, carved brackets. A thin metal wire or chain runs across the beam. Dense green trees and foliage fill the background, with a few small bits of loose sandy ground visible beneath. No people are visible in the scene.2007-03-15October 15 20082008-10-15A photograph of an ornately carved stone doorway in an ancient temple. The recessed doorway has a central vertical column of square carved panels with floral and foliate motifs, flanked by fluted stone pillars with bands of decorative relief. Thin vertical panels with carved foliage fill the sides of the recess. The weathered sandstone shows warm grey and ochre tones, and a stone threshold sits at the base. No people are visible in the scene.2007-07-05January 13 20102010-01-13Close-up photograph of a pale blue painted corner of a building or pavilion, showing two matching carved scroll brackets meeting at a square column beneath the roof beams. The scrolls have curled volute shapes and round finials at their ends. Thin black electrical cables run down the left side, and green foliage is visible through the open space beyond. No people are present.2009-08-08Close-up photograph of a carved grey granite pillar base. A stylised scrolling foliate motif with curling leaves and tendrils is carved in relief on the shaft, above a stepped moulded plinth. The stone surface is speckled and weathered, with a wall of plain granite to the right. No people are visible.2010-01-07A photograph of several carved pale grey granite pillared shrine structures or pavilions with stepped domed tops and lotus-like scalloped carvings, arranged in a row outdoors on bare ground at a stone yard. Stacks of dressed stone blocks and other granite pieces lie around, with a few trees and a corrugated roof at the edges. No people are visible in the scene.January 06 20132013-01-06A small open-sided stone shrine stands in a garden beside a red brick wall. Four grey granite pillars with ornate capitals support a tiered, flat-roofed canopy over a circular base holding a dark stone shivalinga. Green shrubs, bare branches and red stone edging surround it, with a second similar shrine visible further back among trees. No people are present.2016-11-18