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Description: | Plan of Cave XXVI at Ajanta from James Burgess' 'Original Drawings from the Buddhist Rock Temples at Ajanta.'��The thirty magnificent cave temples of Ajanta are situated in a horse-shoe valley of the Waghora River in West India and consist of prayer halls (chaityas) and monasteries (viharas), built for the Buddhist community who lived there. The first group was excavated between the��2nd -��1st century BC.�� After a period of more than six centuries, the excavations restarted around the��5th century AD in the Vakataka period. Cave XXVI dates from the late 5th century and is a chaitya hall with a columned verandah. The interior has a barrel vaulted roof��with��stone ribs arches above the central hall. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Burgess, James (1832-1916) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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