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write bibliography on the Buddhist Ajanta Caves​

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Bibliography on the Buddhist Ajanta Caves

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Ajaṇṭā is a Buddhist rock-cut cave site in Aurangabad District of Maharashtra State, western India. It was discovered in 1819 by British Army officers who were hunting tigers in the great gorge of the Waghora River. The caves are numbered thirty in total and are divided into two phases. The caves of the earlier phase include two large caityas or stupa shrines (caves 9 and 10) and four vihāras or residential caves (caves 8, 12, 14, 15 A). They are dated to the 1st century BCE/CE on the basis of the architectural features of the caves and paleography of votive inscriptions. The caves of the later phase include two finished caityas (caves 19 and 26), several large and fully decorated vihāras (e.g., caves 1, 2, 4, 16, 17) and some unfinished caves. They were created around the late 5th century as shown by votive inscriptions of ministers/ feudatories who served the king Hariṣeṇa of the Vākāṭaka dynasty. Ajaṇṭā is particularly famous for preserving a good number of early Buddhist paintings. Painted narrative friezes on the sidewalls of two early caityas (caves 9 and 10) are the oldest Buddhist narrative paintings in India. Walls and ceilings of the later caves, particularly caves 1, 2, 16, 17, were richly decorated with a variety of Buddha’s legends, Buddha, and Bodhisattva images and other motifs.