Life stories Throughout the Ajanta Caves are paintings of the Jataka tales, stories of the Buddha’s early incarnations in human or animal form. In Cave 17, elephants play a prominent role.

Ajanta Caves includes all the elements necessary to express its Outstanding Universal Value, including the ensemble of these caves in its natural setting, sculptures, paintings, and epigraphs. It is ...

The Ajanta Caves were a sanctuary for Buddhist monks that was forgotten, ... The Government of Bombay commissioned new copies of the Ajanta cave paintings in 1872 from John Griffiths, ...

Ajanta Caves were carved out of a 250 ft wall and had monasteries and Buddhist halls of worship. The paintings represented the different lives and rebirths of the Buddha with sculptures of other ...

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On an impulsive trip to the caves of Ajanta and Ellora in Aurangabad, Kareena N Gianani peeks into a lost world of Buddhist, Jain and Hindu sculptures and gapes at cave paintings which know how to ...

Before Herringham, the Ajanta caves were not unknown. Richard S Cohen, a scholar of Buddhist studies, notes that Abu’l Fazl mentioned them in Ain-i-Akbari in the 1590s.

The Ajanta cave paintings date to 1,400 years before, say, Renaissance. They outdate any European painting of similar artistic value and technical expertise.

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, May 23 (PTI) A painting of a “merchant ship” at Ajanta Cave No. 17, indicating sea trade during the fifth century, inspired the Indian Navy’s traditionally-built ...

The famous Ajanta caves in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad will soon have QR codes at the entrance to provide information to visitors about the paintings there, a senior Archaeological Survey of India ...

The Ajanta Caves were a sanctuary for Buddhist monks that was forgotten, along with its stunning riches, for nearly 1,500 years. Jonathan Glancey investigates. The Ajanta Caves, 30 spellbinding ...