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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ajanta Caves' has mentioned 'Ajanta Caves' in the following places:
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| Ajanta CavesUNESCO World Heritage SiteThe Ajanta CavesLocationAurangabad District, Maharashtra State, IndiaCriteriaCultural: i, ii, iii, viReference242Inscription1983 (7th session)Area8,242 haBufferxc2xa0zone78,676 haCoordinates20xc2xb033xe2x80xb212xe2x80xb3N 75xc2xb042xe2x80xb201xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf20.55333xc2xb0N 75.70028xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 20.55333; 75.70028Coordinates: 20xc2xb033xe2x80xb212xe2x80xb3N 75xc2xb042xe2x80xb201xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf20.55333xc2xb0N 75.70028xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 20.55333; 75.70028Location of Ajanta Caves in IndiaShow map of IndiaAjanta Caves (Maharashtra)Show map of Maharashtra | WIKI |
| Pilgrimage toBuddha's Holy Sites The Four Main Sites Bodh Gaya Kushinagar Lumbini Sarnath Four Additional Sites Rajgir Sankissa Shravasti Vaishali Other Sites Amaravati Chandavaram Devdaha Gaya Kapilavastu Kesaria Kosambi Nalanda Pataliputra Pava Varanasi Later Sites Ajanta Caves Barabar Caves Bharhut Ellora Caves Lalitgiri Mathura Nasik Caves Piprahwa Pushpagiri Ratnagiri Sanchi Udayagiri Vikramashila vte | WIKI |
| [6] The site is a protected monument in the care of the Archaeological Survey of India,[7] and since 1983, the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| The Ajanta Caves constitute ancient monasteries and worship-halls of different Buddhist traditions carved into a 75-metre (246xc2xa0ft) wall of rock. | WIKI |
| Panoramic view of Ajanta Caves from the nearby hill | WIKI |
| The Ajanta Caves are mentioned in the memoirs of several medieval-era Chinese Buddhist travellers to India and by a Mughal-era official of Akbar era in the early 17th century. | WIKI |
| Map of Ajanta Caves | WIKI |
| The Ajanta Caves are generally agreed to have been made in two distinct phases, the first during the 2nd century BCE to 1st century CE, and a second several centuries later. | WIKI |
| The second phase of construction at the Ajanta Caves site began in the 5th century. | WIKI |
| According to Spink, the construction activity at the incomplete Ajanta Caves was abandoned by wealthy patrons in about 480 CE, a few years after the death of Harishena. | WIKI |
| [45] Some of the Hxc5xabxe1xb9x87as, the Alchon Huns of Toramana, were precisely ruling the neighbouring area of Malwa, at the doorstep of the Western Deccan, at the time the Ajanta caves were made. | WIKI |
| According to Richard Cohen, a description of the caves by 7th-century Chinese traveler Xuanzang and scattered medieval graffiti suggest that the Ajanta Caves were known and probably in use subsequently, but without a stable or steady Buddhist community presence. | WIKI |
| [14] The Ajanta caves are mentioned in the 17th-century text Ain-i-Akbari by Abu al-Fazl, as twenty four rock-cut cave temples each with remarkable idols. | WIKI |
| Since 1983, Ajanta caves have been listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of India. | WIKI |
| The Ajanta Caves, along with the Ellora Caves, have become the most popular tourist destination in Maharashtra, and are often crowded at holiday times, increasing the threat to the caves, especially the paintings. | WIKI |
| Cave 24; the Ajanta Caves were carved into a massive rock on the Deccan plateau | WIKI |
| [75] The Ajanta Caves follow the Cathedral-style architecture found in still older rock-cut cave carvings of ancient India, such as the Lomas Rishi Cave of the Ajivikas near Gaya in Bihar dated to the 3rd century BCE. | WIKI |
| The paintings in the Ajanta caves predominantly narrate the Jataka tales. | WIKI |
| The Ajanta Caves were built in a period when both the Buddha and the Hindu gods were simultaneously revered in Indian culture. | WIKI |
| According to Spink and other scholars, the royal Vakataka sponsors of the Ajanta Caves probably worshipped both Hindu and Buddhist gods. | WIKI |
| [106][107] According to Yuko Yokoschi and Walter Spink, the excavated artifacts of the 5th century near the site suggest that the Ajanta caves deployed a huge number of builders. | WIKI |
| Ajanta Caves panorama with cave numbers. | WIKI |
| This monastery is the largest among the Ajanta caves and it measures nearly 970 square metres (10,400xc2xa0sqxc2xa0ft) (35m xc3x97 28m). | WIKI |
| The construction was resumed in 475 CE after Asmakas restarted work at the Ajanta caves, but abandoned again as the artists and sponsor redesigned and focussed on an expanded Cave 6 that abuts Cave 5. | WIKI |
| Over 80% of the Ajanta caves were vihara (temporary traveler residences, monasteries). | WIKI |
| Ajanta caves contributes to visual and descriptive sense of the ancient and early medieval Indian culture and artistic traditions, particularly those around the Gupta Empire era period. | WIKI |
| Orientalism and Ajanta Caves In the early nineteenth century, when Europeans first visited the Ajanta caves, they had no literary precedents through which to determine what they saw. | WIKI |
| The early colonial era description of Ajanta caves was largely orientalist and critical, inconsistent with the Victorian values and stereotyping. | WIKI |
| According to William Dalrymple, the themes and arts in the Ajanta caves were puzzling to the 19th-century Orientalists. | WIKI |
| [273][274] The 19th-century views and interpretations of the Ajanta Caves were conditioned by ideas and assumptions in the colonial mind, saw what they wanted to see. | WIKI |
| To many who are unaware of the premises of Indian religions in general, and Buddhism in particular, the significance of Ajanta Caves has been like rest of Indian art. | WIKI |
| According to Richard Cohen, Ajanta Caves to them has been yet another example of "worship this stock, or that stone, or monstrous idol". | WIKI |
| The Ajanta Caves painting are a significant source of socio-economic information in ancient India, particularly in relation to the interactions of India with foreign cultures at the time most of the paintings were made, in the 5th century CE. | WIKI |
| [287][note 8] Another hypothesis is offered by Upadhya, who states that the artists who built Ajanta caves "very probably included foreigners". | WIKI |