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Description: | Photograph of the façade of the Buddhist chaitya hall, Cave XXVI at Ajanta, taken by Robert Gill in c1868-70, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. The Buddhist cave temples of Ajanta were excavated into a horse-shoe shaped cliff overlooking the Waghora River in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. This chaitya hall belongs to a later group from the 5th century AD. It is large and elaborately decorated but considerably damaged. A columned verandah, now almost destroyed, extends across the facade. The facade is decorated by a large horse-shoe shaped window above a columned entrance, decorated with rows of carved figures of Buddhas. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Gill, Robert | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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