A view of the trimurti from 'Description of Arabia' by Carsten Niebuhr, 1776

Source: ebay, Sept. 2007


*"The Great Triad in the Cave Temple of Elephanta near Bombay," by Robert Melville Grindlay, London, 1830* (BL)


*"Triad Figure, Interior of Elephanta," by William Willmoth, 1833, from 'Fisher & Son's Drawing Room Scrapbook', 1837*

Source: ebay, Oct. 2006


*"Tete a trois visages a Elephanta," an engraving from 1835*

Source: ebay, Dec. 2006





"Triad Figure, Interior of Elephanta," from vol. 3 of 'The Indian Empire' by Robert Montgomery Martin, c.1860

Source: http://www.archive.org/details/indianempirehist03martuoft
(downloaded Jan. 2009)


"Cave Temples at Elephanta," a steel engraving, 1860's

Source: ebay, Feb. 2002





From 'Le Tour du Monde', 1863

Source: ebay, Mar. 2009




"The Caves of Elephants, near Bombay," Illustrated London News, 1875

Source: ebay, July 2009


"Grotto-Temple of Elephanta," a lithograph, 1888

Source: ebay, July 2001


The trimurti in modern bazaar art

Source: ebay, May 2005



*An almost mirror-image bazaar art view*

Source: ebay, July 2012

A more recent bazaar-art view, c.1980's

Source: ebay, Sept. 2007


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