Image Credits

Our image policy

Photographs help convey the atmosphere of the temple, the climb and the Karla Caves, and we want to use them responsibly. Our policy is straightforward:

• Owned, licensed or public-domain only. We aim to publish a picture only when we own it, have a licence or permission to use it, or it is genuinely in the public domain.
• Attribution where required. Where a licence or courtesy calls for a credit, we aim to name the source and link to the original where appropriate.
• No hotlinking. We host our images on our own site rather than linking to files on other people's servers, which avoids using their bandwidth without consent.
• Respect for sacred and protected subjects. The temple is a living place of worship and the caves are an ASI-protected monument; we try to use images respectfully and in context.

Provenance is being verified

We want to be candid: we are still verifying the exact source and licence of several photographs currently used across the site. We keep an internal record of image sources and licences and are working through it to confirm each picture's origin and rights before finalising the credits shown here. Until that review is complete, the table below honestly marks the source of each image as “to be confirmed” rather than guessing.

If you are the photographer or rights-holder of any image on this site, or you recognise where an image came from, please get in touch via the Report a Correction page. We will gladly add the correct credit, update the licence note, or remove the image if asked.

Image source status

This table will be updated as each image's source and licence are confirmed against our internal records. “To be confirmed” means we have not yet finished verifying provenance, not that any rights are claimed.

Licensed images (Wikimedia Commons)

The heritage photographs below are reused from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative-Commons or public-domain licences shown, with attribution to the photographer. Each links to its source file. Images have been resized for the web; no other changes were made. (“CC BY” / “CC BY-SA” refer to the Creative Commons licences.)

Where these images appear on the site, the photographer and licence are also credited in the picture's caption.