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01. ↑The lion capital is significant in its design, the octagonal base the lion sits on, and the animals carved on the eight sides: a bull, an elephant, a gaur, a tiger with wings, two winged creatures, a horse and a double-humped camel. This sat on a pillar.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed02. ↑The term Visnupadagiri occurs in the _Mahabharata_, and has been variously interpreted to mean sites in Kashmir, Anga or other regions.\14\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed03. ↑The tropic of cancer has been shifting south on a cycle of about 41,000 years. See Circle of latitude#Movement of the Tropical and Polar circles.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed04. ↑Willis states that "this means there was a living oral tradition in central India for six centuries that credited the temple to Chandragupta".\22\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed05. ↑The Udayagiri Caves Hindu temples are mentioned in inscriptions outside its near vicinity, states Willis. Some mention the temples for context, some record donations to the temples at Udayagiri. One of the mentioned Bhailasvami temple in 10th to 12th-century inscriptions is now missing.\22\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed06. ↑The original theory that there may be Buddhist remains below the Udayagiri temples remains active, state Dass and Willis, and the search for "Buddhist remains is still going on".\33\ One unsolved puzzle is that some of the niches at smaller Udayagiri Caves seem to be cutting through Sankha Lipi inscriptions and not produced on virgin rock. These suggest that the wall had pre-existing huge, ostentatious Sankha Lipi inscription carvings. The caves were produced by cutting through these undeciphered inscriptions and into the face of the massive rock. Scholars wonder whether these inscriptions were related to Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism or some other tradition, and whether they relate to inter-religious relations in centuries before the 4th century CE.\23\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed07. ↑Cunningham's report in 1880 numbered it Cave 3.\15\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed08. ↑Mitra compares the entire composition to a number of Hindu texts, including the Vishvarupa verses in Chapter 11 of the _Bhagavada Gita_.\48\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed09. ↑Some Indian iconography shows him as horse faced, but not this cave. Here the iconography for Tumburu and Narada in this panel is more consistent with the guidelines in _Vaikhanasayama_, a Hindu text.\45\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed10. ↑The surviving images of Durga within the Udayagiri Caves complex are found in five places: four times in Cave 6 alone and in Cave 17. The best surviving image of her is in the front of Cave 6. These are 10 armed Durgas, with iconography found elsewhere. The surviving images have different style, possibly because different guild traditions worked on these caves at the same time.\53\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed11. ↑Ganesha appears in seven places within the Udayagiri Caves complex.\54\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed12. ↑Harper makes novel interpretations of the goddesses-related iconography in this and other Udayagiri caves, then links it to suggests early roots of tantra in ancient India.\59\ Willis disagrees and finds Harper's re-interpretation of Udayagiri Shaktism-related temples and iconography as tautological.\58\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed13. ↑There are many images of Vishnu in Udayagiri. Of these nine are standing images. They are found in Caves 6, 9, 10, 11 and 12.\65\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed14. ↑୯ is 9 in modern Odia.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed15. ↑The relationship and equivalence of Surya, Vishnu and others was a theme of these cave temples.\79\
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed01. 1 2Upinder Singh (2008). _A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century_. Pearson. p.533\. ISBN 978-81-317-1120-0.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗02. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12Meera Dass; Michael Willis (2002). "The lion capital and the antiquity of sun worship in central India". _South Asian Studies_. **18**: 25–45\. doi: 10.1080/02666030.2002.9628605. S2CID 191353414.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed04. 1 2Margaret Prosser Allen (1992), Ornament in Indian Architecture, University of Delaware Press, ISBN 978-0874133998, pages 128-129
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed05. 1 2James C. Harle (1974). _Gupta sculpture: Indian sculpture of the fourth to the sixth centuries A.D._. Clarendon Press, Oxford. pp. 7–9.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗06. 1 2 3 4 5Cunningham 1880, pp.46–53.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed07. ↑The inscriptions are dealt with in J. F. Fleet, _Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and their Successors_, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. 3 (Calcutta, 1888), hereinafter CII 3 (1888); for another version and interpretation: D. R. Bhandarkar et al, _Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings_, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, vol. 3 (revised) (New Delhi, 1981).
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed08. 1 2Sara L. Schastok (1985). _The Śāmalājī Sculptures and 6th Century Art in Western India_. BRILL Academic. pp.36–37\. ISBN 90-04-06941-0.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗10. ↑The Past Before Us, Romila Thapar p.361
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗11. ↑Sita Pieris; Ellen Raven (2010). _ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index: Volume Three – South Asia_. BRILL Academic. pp.230–231\. ISBN 978-90-04-19148-8.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗12. ↑Balasubramaniam, R. (2008). "Iron Pillar at Delhi". In Helaine Selin (ed.). _Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures_. Springer Netherlands. pp. 1131–1136\. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0\_8658. ISBN 978-1-4020-4559-2.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed14. ↑J. L. Brockington (1998). _The Sanskrit Epics_. BRILL Academic. pp.202–203\. ISBN 90-04-10260-4.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗15. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Cunningham 1880, pp.46–47.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed16. ↑A. Ghosh, _An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology_, 2 vols. New Delhi, 1989: s.v. Besnagar.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed17. ↑Willis 2009, pp.15–27, 248.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed18. ↑Willis 2009, pp.1–3, 54, 248.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed19. ↑JF Fleet (1888), Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and Their Successors, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol III, pages 25-34
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed20. ↑Richard Salomon (1998). _Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages_. Oxford University Press. pp.174–175\. ISBN 978-0-19-509984-3.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗21. ↑BECKER, CATHERINE (2010). "NOT YOUR AVERAGE BOAR: THE COLOSSAL VARĀHA AT ERĀṆ, AN ICONOGRAPHIC INNOVATION". _Artibus Asiae_. **70** (1): 127. ISSN 0004-3648. JSTOR 20801634.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗22. 1 2 3 4 5 6Michael Willis (2001), "Inscriptions from Udayagiri: locating domains of devotion, patronage and power in the eleventh century", South Asian Studies, Volume 17, Number 1, pages 41-53
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed23. 1 2 3 4Julia Shaw (2013). _Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, C. Third Century BC to Fifth Century AD_. Routledge. pp.131–132\. ISBN 978-1-61132-344-3.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗24. ↑M.I. Dass and R. Balasubramanium (2004), Estimation of the original erection site of the Delhi Iron Pillar at Udayagiri, Indian Journal of History of Science, Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 51-54, context: 51-74
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed25. ↑R. Balasubramaniam, ‘Identity of Chandra and Vishnupadagiri of the Delhi Iron Pillar Inscription: Numismatic, Archaeological and Literary Evidence’, _Bulletin of Metals Museum_ 32 (2000): 42-64; Balasubramaniam and Meera I. Dass, ‘On the Astronomical Significance of the Delhi Iron Pillar’, _Current Science_ 86 (2004): 1135-42.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed26. ↑R Balasubramaniam, MI Dass and EM Raven (2004), _The Original Image atop the Delhi Iron Pillar_, Indian Journal of History of Science, Vol. 39, Issue 2, pages 177-203
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed27. ↑HG Raverty (1970, Translator), _Tabakat-i-Nasari: A General History of the Muhammadan Dynasties of Asia, including Hindustan from AH 194 (810 AD) to AH 658 (1260 AD) by Maulana Minhaj-ud-din Abu-uma-I-Usman_, Vol. 1, Oriental, pages 620-623
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed28. ↑Cunningham 1880, pp.55–56.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed29. ↑Meera Dass; Michael Willis (2002). "The lion capital and the antiquity of sun worship in central India". _South Asian Studies_. **18**: 31–32 with footnote 31 on page 43.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed30. ↑HH Lake (1910), _Besnagar_, Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 23, pages 135-145
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed31. 1 2 3 4 5Julia Shaw (2013). _Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, C. Third Century BC to Fifth Century AD_. Routledge. pp.21–22\. ISBN 978-1-61132-344-3.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗32. ↑DR Bhandarkar (1915), _Excavations at Besnagar_, Annual Report 1913-1914, Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India Press, pages 186-225 with plates; also the ASI Western Circle Report 1915, _Excavations_, pages 59-71 with plates
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed33. ↑Meera Dass; Michael Willis (2002). "The lion capital and the antiquity of sun worship in central India". _South Asian Studies_. **18**: 31–32 with footnote 32 on page 43.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed34. ↑Michael Willis (2001), "Inscriptions from Udayagiri: locating domains of devotion, patronage and power in the eleventh century", South Asian Studies, Volume 17, Number 1, pages 41-53 with note 4 on page 50
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed35. ↑D. R. Patil, _The Monuments of the Udayagiri Hill_ (Gwalior, 1948).
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed36. 1 2Meera Dass 2001, pp.80–81.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed37. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.81–84.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed38. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.7–8, 80–81.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed39. ↑Willis 2009, pp.29, 251–252.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed40. ↑Willis 2009, pp.12–13.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed41. ↑Meera Dass 2001, p.12.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed42. ↑J. C. Harle, _Gupta Sculpture: Indian Sculpture of the Fourth to the Sixth Centuries A.D._ (Oxford \England\: Clarendon Press, 1974).
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed43. 1 2 3 4 5Sara L. Schastok (1985). _The Śāmalājī Sculptures and 6th Century Art in Western India_. BRILL Academic. pp.36–41, 65–67\. ISBN 90-04-06941-0.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗44. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.26, 251.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed45. 1 2 3 4 5 6Debala Mitra, ’Varāha Cave at Udayagiri – An Iconographic Study’, _Journal of the Asiatic Society_ 5 (1963): 99-103; J. C. Harle, _Gupta Sculpture_ (Oxford, 1974): figures 8-17.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed46. ↑Willis 2009. p. 79.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed47. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7H. von Stietencron (1986). Th. P. van Baaren; A Schimmel; etal. (eds.). _Approaches to Iconology_. Brill Academic. pp.16–22 with footnotes. ISBN 90-04-07772-3.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗48. ↑Debala Mitra (1963), ’Varāha Cave at Udayagiri – An Iconographic Study’, _Journal of the Asiatic Society_, Vol. 5, page 103
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed49. ↑Roshen Dalal (2010). _Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide_. Penguin Books. p.159\. ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗50. ↑George M. Williams (2008). _Handbook of Hindu Mythology_. Oxford University Press. pp.154–155, 223–224\. ISBN 978-0-19-533261-2.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗51. 1 2Joanna Gottfried Williams (1982). _The Art of Gupta India: Empire and Province_. Princeton University Press. pp.42–46\. ISBN 978-0-691-10126-2.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗52. ↑Phyllis Granoff, ‘Mahiṣāsuramardinī: An Analysis of the Myths’, _East and West_ 29 (1979): 139-51.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed53. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.86–88.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed54. 1 2Meera Dass 2001, pp.84–85.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed55. ↑Willis, _The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual_, p. 142.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed56. ↑Cunningham, Bhilsa Topes (1854): 150; Thomas, Essays (1858) 1: 246; Cunningham, ASIR 10 (1874-77): 50; Fleet, CII 3 (1888): number 6; Bhandarkar, EI 19-23 (1927-36): appendix, number 1541; Bhandarkar, Chhabra and Gai, CII 3 (1981): number 7; Goyal (1993): number 10. The most recent reading and translation is in Willis, _The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009): 57 ISBN 978-0-521-51874-1.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed57. ↑Cunningham, ASIR 10 (1874-77): 50, plate xix, number 3; GAR (VS 1988/AD 1931-32): number 5; Dvivedī (VS 2004): number 714.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed58. 1 2Willis 2009, p.315 note 43.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed59. ↑Katherine Harper (2002), "The Warring Śaktis: A Paradigm for Gupta Conquests" in The Roots of Tantra, ISBN 978-0-7914-5305-6, pages 115-131
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed60. ↑Richard Salomon, ‘New Sankalipi (Shell Character) Inscriptions’, _Studien zur Indologie und Iranistik_ 11-12 (1986): 109-52. Claims regarding decipherment must be discounted, see Salomon, ‘A Recent Claim to Decipherment of the Shell Script’, _JAOS_ 107 (1987): 313-15; Salomon, _Indian Epigraphy_ (Oxford, 1998): 70
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed61. 1 2 3 4 5Cunningham 1880, pp.51–52.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed62. ↑Willis 2009, pp.4–5, 39–41.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed63. ↑Willis 2009, pp.4–5, 39–41, 200.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed64. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.280–282.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed65. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.88.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed66. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.32–34.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed67. ↑Curta, Florin; Holt, Andrew (2016). _Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History \3 volumes\_. ABC-CLIO. p.271\. ISBN 978-1-61069-566-4.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed69. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.216, 283.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed70. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.80, 286.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed71. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.288–290.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed72. ↑Meera Dass 2001, pp.85–86, 291–293.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed73. 1 2Meera Dass 2001, pp.85–86.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed74. 1 2Cunningham 1880, pp.52–53.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed75. 1 2Cunningham 1880, pp.53–54.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed76. ↑Lisa Owen (2012). _Carving Devotion in the Jain Caves at Ellora_. BRILL Academic. pp.62 with footnote 53. ISBN 978-90-04-20630-4.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed78. 1 2Willis 2009, pp.2–3.
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Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed83. ↑H. von Stietencron (1986). Th. P. van Baaren; A Schimmel; etal. (eds.). _Approaches to Iconology_. Brill Academic. pp.16–17\. ISBN 90-04-07772-3.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗84. ↑Julia Shaw (2013). _Buddhist Landscapes in Central India: Sanchi Hill and Archaeologies of Religious and Social Change, C. Third Century BC to Fifth Century AD_. Routledge. pp.56–57\. ISBN 978-1-61132-344-3.
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