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Title/Caption	Ajanta: Cave 1
Larger Work/Entity	Ajanta Caves
Site/Creative Center	Ajanta, Maharashtra (India)
Date of Work	ca. second half of 5th Century CE
Description of View	Bodhisattva Padmapani holding his lotus on back wall to left of shrine antechamber
Notes	This cave-temple is one of a series of caves situated at Ajanta, a Buddhist monastic and pilgrimage site excavated from the rock escarpment of a gorge formed by the Waghora River in a remote region of northwestern Deccan. This cave was excavated during the second phase of building activity at the site, under the probable patronage of the feudatory Vakataka ruler Harishena (r. ca. 460-78). Cave 2, a monastic residence (vihara) for monks and the lay community, is renowned for its magnificant wall paintings of Bodhisattvas (future Buddhas), which are associated with Mahayana Buddhism, and narrative illustrations of the earlier lives of the Buddha (jatakas). These wall paintings, demonstrating a variety of illusionistic techniques, constitute some of the earliest extant paintings of the Indian subcontinent.
Technique/Process	mural painting
Materials/Medium	paint & mud-plaster applied to volcanic rock
Culture	Indian (South Asian) / Buddhist
Century	5th Century CE
Style of Work	Gupta
Subject	Painting, Indian (South Asian) Painting, 5th Century CE Religious buildings Rock-cut temples Mural paintings (visual works) Religious art Figures, male Bodhisattva
Publisher	Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation
Publisher.Location	Freeport, Maine (United States)
Credit Line	(C) Dr. Ronald V. Wiedenhoeft
Reference Number	Saskia Kie-0085
Collection Title	Painting (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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