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English: The broken lion capital found close to a square platform, near the Hindu caves at Udayagiri, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. The site shows signs of damage.

The ancient artifact and its links to Surya tradition of Hinduism has been described by Dass and Willis in a 2002 journal paper: doi:10.1080/02666030.2002.9628605

The image is a photograph of Plate Print XXX of the source, and PD-Art-100-70 with Creative Commons 4.0 license apply.
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Source Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Vol 1, 1877
Author Alexander Cunningham (1877)
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