Ajanta

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Meena V. Talim
  The Ajanta cave paintings are admired all over the world. Recently, UNESCO declared the caves a World Heritage Site. Scholars like Ananda Coomaraswamy, A. Foucher, J. Griffith, G. Yazdani, M.N. Deshpande, D. Schlingloff, Karl Khandalawala, M.K. Dhavalikar and Walter Spink have devoted their…
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Jayaram Poduval
When you look at Ellora in the context of Indian cave temple architecture, it is very significant since it is a kind of culmination—the zenith of cave architecture in India. As we know, cave architecture in India began with the Lomas Rishi cave in Bihar. Then you have all the activity in western…
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Rebecca M. Brown
Colonial and modern art at the Rashtrapati Bhavan The painting collection of the Rashtrapati Bhavan has been built over the decades by successive viceregal and presidential incumbents in the house, shaped both by the leadership of the time and by the individuals responsible for maintaining the…
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R.K.S.: We have Prof. Monika Zin with us today who is a professor of Indology and Indian Art at the University of Munich. She is quite well-known in the area of Buddhist studies: the early and mainstream Buddhism in India.  Now she has, in the last ten years or more, moved  her area…
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Dieter Schlingloff
  The different phases of Ajanta paintings   Dieter Schlingloff   Introduction The Paintings of the Second Century B.C. 1. General observations 2. The Buddha in Previous Existences 3. The Superhuman Events in the Buddha’s Life The Paintings of the Fifth Century A.D. 6 1. General…
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By Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh   Rajesh Kumar Singh: I have with me Prof. N. Yaguchi of University of Kanazawa, Japan who has been working on the Ajanta caves since the last twenty-five years as far as I know. He is a professor of architecture in the Department of Humanities and Social…
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Monika Zin
A Study of Ajanta Paintings   Prosperity in this World Instead of Nirvāṇa? Understanding the Arrangement of the Paintings in the Caves of Ajanta and Their Comparative Soteriological Significance in Terms of Relevance or Irrelevance for Enlightenment Monika Zin   It is a matter…
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Walter M Spink
Ajanta. Bagh. Dandin. Vakataka's Late History Walter M Spink Contents Introduction 1 Dandin as a source 2 Vakataka’s late history: the final years 4 Visruta = Subandhu 6 Bagh and Ajanta 8 The Bagh plate 13 DeCaroli’s analysis 16 Visruta is indeed Subandhu 21 Time chart 28 References 28  …
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Rajesh Kumar Singh
AJIṆṬHĀ Caves, Part II Some Aspects OF the ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND in the  HARIṢEṆA-PERIOD Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh   Contents Introductory. 2 Sthānaka or Ṭhāṇā near Ajiṇṭhā.. 5 Mahiṣāsuramardini at Ajiṇṭhā.. 6 Roman gold coin at Ajiṇṭhā.. 6 Sociology under Hariṣeṇa..…
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Rajesh Kumar Singh
AJIṆṬHĀ caves, part I Some aspects of the historical and political background Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh B1-264, Siddharth Bungalows Sama – Savali Road, Vadodara 390022, Gujarat, India Email: rksingh1970@gmail.com, +91-9429925036   AJIṆṬHĀ CAVES, PART I Some Aspects of the Historical and…
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