It is no wonder, then, that the sumptuously-painted murals of cave 1 are all about kingship and the courtly life of royal cities. In the Ajanta murals, we see five main scenes from this Jataka.

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 murals of caves nine and ten ... Gates is named after the sixth Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1658-1707). The Ajanta cave paintings date to 1,400 years before, say, Renaissance.

These paintings are reproductions of Ajanta cave murals by veteran artist Ganesh Haloi, who was assigned by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in 1957 to replicate the frescoes. Over the ...

A painting in Ajanta cave 17. Credit: Wikimedia Commons [Public ... in contrast to the previous reproductions of the Ajanta murals, Herringham and her group were not so much recording as ...

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 ...

with exquisite paintings and murals Honeybees attacked a group of foreign tourists at the world-famous Ajanta cave complex in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, in which an ...