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Life storiesThroughout 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.

In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating European cave art by over 10,000 years.

NEW DELHI, DELHI, INDIA, June 3, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- Ajanta & Ellora Caves are important Buddhist pilgrimage sites . They are near Aurangabad in the State of Maharashtra,India.

The design was inspired by a painting from the famed Ajanta Caves. Its is a recreation of a 5th-century Christian Era vessel, built entirely using traditional methods and raw materials.

The ship is inspired by a painting from the Ajanta Caves and has been recreated keeping in mind a CE vessel from the 5th century. The project, funded by the Ministry of Culture, was started after ...

The paintings and sculptures of Ajanta are masterpieces of Buddhist religious art. On the other hand, Ellora Caves have 34 monasteries and temples themed around Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism.

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.

Sometime in 1910, artist Christiana Herringham left her home in London for India and travelled to reach the Ajanta Caves in Central India, which she had visited four years earlier. The artist ...

How Maharashtra's Ajanta Caves came to inspire iconic images around the world. Thanks to the UNESCO World Heritage site designation and the efforts of the state government, the caves stand ...

It includes interactive panels to help you learn about famous Ajanta paintings, like the Bodhisattva Padmapani from cave No.1.