Ayan Ghosh with captions by Krittika Narula
in Image Gallery
Shrikant Ganvir
in Interview
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…
in Article
M.K. Dhavalikar
Contents
Introduction
Mahayana Buddhism
Junnar
Kanheri
Kuda
Mahad
Ajanta
Ajanta
Conclusion
Captions
References
Introduction
There are about 1200 rock-cut caves in India, of which 1000 are in Maharashtra, and of these nearly two-thirds are Buddhist.…
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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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Rajesh Kumar Singh
An introduction to the history and patronage of the Ajanta caves, their architecture, paintings, iconography and textual sources.
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Rajesh Kumar Singh
The Ajanta caves: an overview
Rajesh K Singh
Contents
Introduction. 1
Location. 1
Importance. 1
Period. 1
Purpose of the caves. 2
The makers of the caves. 2
The extent of the paintings. 2
The corpus of the paintings. 3
References. 5
Endnotes. 6
Introduction
The Ajanta caves are rock-cut…
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