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Description: | Photograph of the interior of a Buddhist chaitya hall, Cave X, Ajanta taken by Robert Gill c.1868-70. Ajanta is situated in the modern state of Maharashtra. At Ajanta, there are nearly thirty rock-cut temples set into a cliff in a bend in the Waghora river. The temples were found by accident by Captain John Smith on a hunting trip but were not documented properly until the middle of the nineteenth century. Cave 10 is an early chaitya hall, a Buddhist place of worship, which was excavated in the 2nd Century BC. The apsidal-ended interior is divided into three aisles by plain octagonal columns. The central aisle has a vaulted ceiling. The votive stupa at the end of the cave has a double-storey drum. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Sacred Architecture Architecture Rock-Cut Temples | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Gill, Robert | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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