A painting of Ajanta Caves made by Gajendra Aware, a primary teacher from the Aurangabad district, has won the top award at Torso India — an international platform of art competition and auction.

An image of an ancient mural from India’s Ajanta Caves has been converted to special film and deposited in an Arctic mountain archive to keep it safe for future generations.

Before Herringham, the Ajanta caves were not unknown. Richard S Cohen, a scholar of Buddhist studies, notes that Abu’l Fazl mentioned them in Ain-i-Akbari in the 1590s.

It’s these later caves from the reign of Harisena—1-8, 11 and 14-31 (these clusters hold the bulk of the surviving painted murals as well) that tell the most compelling story of Ajanta.

Ajanta Caves 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 ...

He also said they can send only 40 tourists inside the caves at a time for a period of 10 minutes. In such a short span, the visitors cannot even see the paintings properly as they need time to get ...

Ajanta Caves 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 ...