Question

The Ajanta Caves, we were told, lay in the side of a ravine in wild and

desolated country some 350 miles to the north-west, at the extreme tip of

Hyderabad state here it touches the Bombay Province. Properly speaking

they were not caves at all, but temples which had excavated from the living

rock by Buddhist monks. These Monks had first come to the ravine

somewhere in the second century before Christ and they had begun by

hacking out the rock by hand and hurling it down into the river below.

Then, probably with large mirrors to reflect the sunshine from the ravine

outside, they set about the decoration of walls, the doorways and the

ceiling. They continued for the next eight hundred years, always painting

and sculpturing Lord Buddha, but setting him against an idyllic background

of folk tales and the everyday life of their own time. In much the same way

as in the Italian Renaissance which over a thousand years later, the work

was subsidized by wealthy merchants and the princes of the surrounding

countryside. What do you understand by reading this passage?​

Answer 1

Answer:

we understand by this passage that they are located in mumbai

they are not caves but temple's which are excavated by the living

and Buddhists came to those caves and for eight hundred years they were only doing sculpting, paintings and decorations related to lord Buddha..