Western India April 28th, 1819 while hunting tigers just outside the village of Ajanta British officer John Smith discovered 29 elaborate cave temples carved into the side of the rocky cliff overlooking the Warghora River. It is believed the caves were constructed in 200B.C.The caves architecture and artwork reveal new insights into the origins of India’s mysterious sacred past. Ajanta is unique in the sense because they are the most ancient Buddhist caves in India.
Here the work started in 200 BC and the work continued till 6th century A.D. after 7th century A.D. Buddhism started declining in India and all these caves were abandoned. Nobody was living here so in course of time it got covered in dense forest. The most amazing thing about the Ajanta caves is that as one walks into it he sees all kinds of temples, statues carved out of the solid rock but all of this is carved out of one solid giant block of rock. These were visited by thousand of Buddhist worshipers and even considered sacred to this day.
Built as holy shrines and temples by devoted monks they contain numerous places of worship complete with paintings and sculptures depicting lifestyle of BUDDHA. There are many different sculpted subjects in Ajanta, many of the sculptures are of the Buddha. In addition to those sculptures there are depictions of other mythological beings, these are called jataks. Even today the engineers are baffled that how it was possible to cut the caves from a 70 foot high granite rock but as rich India is in its culture, it’s rich in its techniques and studies making it possible to let Ajanta caves into being.
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