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Description

Lajja Gauri. Naganatha Temple, Naganathakolla, Bijapur District, India. Badami Museum, Item B36
Source

Image scanned by uploader from Bolon, Carol Radcliffe, Forms of the Goddess Lajja Gauri in Indian Art, The Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, Penn., 1992).
Date

c. 650 CE
Author

Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), government photograph.
Permission
(Reusing this image)

This official photo – created by the Indian Archaeological Survey (ASI), Government of India – of the Lajja Gauri sculpture situate in the Badami Museum (a public-access facility of the ASI) is exempted from copyright protection under the Indian Copyright Act of 1957, as amended: "52. (1) The following acts shall not constitute an infringement of copyright, namely [...] (t) the publishing of a painting, drawing, engraving or photograph of a sculpture, or other artistic work […] permanently situate in a public place or any premises to which the public has access."

Also under section 52 this is a non-profit educational use of a photo intended as public documentation of national heritage, portraying an ancient sculpture originally created for strictly devotional temple use, as described in the referring article at Wikipedia.
Other versions This image is a one-of-a-kind object of religious worship, of which countless alternative versions exist, all sculpted according to canonical specifications reaching back several millennia.

Public domain This image is in the public domain in India because its term of copyright has expired.
  • Indian copyright act applies in India, to images first published in India.
  • According to The Indian Copyright Act, 1957, all photographs and sound recordings enter the public domain after sixty years counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (ie. as of 2007, prior to 1-January-1947) after they were first published.
This image might not be in the public domain outside India. The creator and year of publication are essential information and must be provided. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details.


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