Photo of detailed carving on one of the marble pillars inside the elaborately carved, 15th-century Ranakpur Jain Temple, Chaturmukha Dharana Vihara. Carved floral, lotus design, birds, geometrical details, a bell hanging from a chain, a standing figure. Pali district, Rajasthan, India | © Radek Kucharski
Parts of Ranakpur Jain Temple interior were lit by the direct afternoon sunbeams, when I was there, hunting for the spots where fragments of carvings were in the light contrasting with much darker surrounding.
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