(Istockphoto) If the past is another country, as the adage goes, few historical sites typify it as profoundly as the Ajanta Caves in present ... art gave a body to the Buddha However, this was ...

Made using oil paints, the painting became a reality on a canvas of 148 x 51 inch, figuring Gautam Buddha and Padmapani among other characters portrayed at Ajanta Caves. “One of my friends saw ...

Near the ancient town of Ajanta, roughly 30 caves carved by humans ... covered with depictions of the Buddha’s previous lives. In Cave 1, a well-preserved painting shows a king taking a ritual ...

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 ...

Art historian Saili Palande-Datar linked this painting to the Purna Avadana, a narrative from Buddhist literature. She said several Ajanta caves feature ... To meet them, Buddha is said to have ...

The great majority of the Ajanta caves, and almost all the murals ... fragments of the oldest surviving painting of the Life of the Buddha. One scene shows a group of kings and deities venerating ...

There is another painting of two horses ... chronological way of doing Ajanta Caves and so, the last stop is at cave 29 which houses the colossal reclining Buddha. The sculpture is 23 ft in ...

This vivid account of the Bodhisattva Padmapani mural from the Ajanta caves in Aurangabad ... name and date across the chest of a Buddha in one of the caves. Since their resurfacing, the caves ...

The caves have paintings depicting the life of Gautam Buddha. Every week, thousands of tourists visit the monument. “The presence of a large number of tourists increases humidity inside the ...