Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ajanta Caves' has mentioned 'Mahayana' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Many columns are carved over all their surface with floral motifs and Mahayana deities, some fluted and others carved with decoration all over, as in cave 1. | WIKI |
| [72] This stage marked the Mahayana theme and Vakataka renaissance period of Ajanta reconstruction that started about four centuries after the earlier Hinayana theme construction. | WIKI |
| The most intact painting in Cave 6: Buddha seated in dharma-chakra-mudra[146] Painting showing the Mahayana devotional worship to the Buddha[138][143] Buddha in the upper level, deer below and apsaras above (artificial lighting)[147][148] | WIKI |
| It may well be the oldest Mahayana monastery excavated in India, according to Spink. | WIKI |
| [168] Both Hinayana and Mahayana stage paintings are discernable, though the former are more faded and begrimed with early centuries of Hinayana worship. | WIKI |
| [182][183] Cave 16 is a Mahayana monastery and has the standard arrangement of a main doorway, two windows, and two aisle doorways. | WIKI |
| [209] It made a major departure from the earlier Hinayana tradition, by carving a Buddha into the stupa, a decision that states Spink must have come from "the highest levels" in the 5th-century Mahayana Buddhist establishment because the king and dynasty that built this cave was from the Shaivism Hindu tradition. | WIKI |
| [234] On top of the dagoba is a nine-tiered harmika, a symbolism for the nine saxe1xb9x83sxc4x81ra (Buddhism) heavens in Mahayana cosmology. | WIKI |