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 lives…
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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 of research…
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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 remarks
2. The…
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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 Sciences. We…
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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 of common knowledge…
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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.. 7
Sanskṛit…
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Rajesh Kumar Singh
AJIṆṬHĀ caves, part I
Some aspects of the historical and political background
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Singh
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AJIṆṬHĀ CAVES, PART I
Some Aspects of the Historical and Political…
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