A one-of-a-kind project to recreate a 5th-century stitched shipbased on an ancient painting from the Ajanta Caves has been ...

The first Buddhist cave monuments at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. During the Gupta period (5th and 6th centuries A.D.), many more richly decorated caves were added to the original ...

The Indian Navy has formally inducted the ancient-style stitched sail ship, naming it INSV Kaundinya, a vessel modelled on a 5th-century CE depiction of a ship in the Ajanta Caves. The induction ...

A 1,600-year-old wooden ship, long extinct and no longer in naval service anywhere in the world, has been successfully ...

This vivid account of the Bodhisattva Padmapani mural from the Ajanta caves in Aurangabad by Christiana ... (Left) A detail of an Ajanta painting and (right) a copy by Herringham.

Art historian Saili Palande-Datar linked this painting to the Purna Avadana, a narrative from Buddhist literature. She said several Ajanta caves feature paintings of ships. “We can connect this ...

An Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) official, who is also an expert on the world-famous Ajanta caves, said, “The ship depicted in Cave 17 resembles a merchant vessel, indicating the ...