Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ajanta Caves' has mentioned 'Hindu' in the following places:
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| [8][20] Ajanta is 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the Ellora Caves, which contain Hindu, Jain and Buddhist caves, the last dating from a period similar to Ajanta. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 1.1 Caves of the first (Satavahana) period 1.2 Caves of the later, or Vxc4x81kxc4x81xe1xb9xadaka, period 1.3 Re-discovery 2 Sites and monasteries 2.1 Sites 2.2 Monasteries 2.3 Worship halls 3 Paintings 4 Spink's chronology and cave history 4.1 Hindu and Buddhist sponsorship 5 Individual caves 5.1 Cave 1 5.2 Cave 2 5.3 Cave 3 5.4 Cave 4 5.5 Cave 5 5.6 Cave 6 5.7 Cave 7 5.8 Cave 8 5.9 Cave 9 5.10 Cave 10 5.11 Caves 11 5.12 Caves 12 5.13 Cave 13, 14, 15, 15A 5.14 Cave 16 5.15 Cave 17 5.16 Cave 18 5.17 Cave 19 (5th century CE) 5.18 Cave 20 5.19 Caves 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25 5.20 Cave 26 (5th century CE) 5.21 Caves 27, 28 and 29 5.22 Cave 30 5.23 Other infrastructure 5.24 Recent excavations 6 Copies of the paintings 7 Significance 7.1 Natives, society and culture in the arts at Ajanta 7.2 Foreigners in the paintings of Ajanta 8 Impact on later painting and other arts 9 See also 10 Notes 11 References 11.1 Bibliography 12 External links | WIKI |
| For a long time it was thought that the later caves were made over an extended period from the 4th to the 7th centuries CE,[33] but in recent decades a series of studies by the leading expert on the caves, Walter M. Spink, have argued that most of the work took place over the very brief period from 460 to 480 CE,[32] during the reign of Hindu Emperor Harishena of the Vxc4x81kxc4x81xe1xb9xadaka dynasty. | WIKI |
| These fables embed ancient morals and cultural lores that are also found in the fables and legends of Hindu and Jain texts. | WIKI |
| Hindu and Buddhist sponsorship[edit] | WIKI |
| According to Spink and other scholars, the royal Vakataka sponsors of the Ajanta Caves probably worshipped both Hindu and Buddhist gods. | WIKI |
| [34][105] This is evidenced by inscriptions in which these rulers, who are otherwise known as Hindu devotees, made Buddhist dedications to the caves. | WIKI |
| That one could worship both the Buddha and the Hindu gods may well account for Varahadeva's participation here, just as it can explain why the emperor Harisena himself could sponsor the remarkable Cave 1, even though most scholars agree that he was certainly a Hindu, like earlier Vakataka kings. | WIKI |
| [180][181] He was, states Spink, probably someone who revered both the Buddha and the Hindu gods, as he proclaims his Hindu heritage in an inscription in the nearby Ghatotkacha Cave. | WIKI |
| It includes Naga figures with a serpent canopy protecting the Buddha, similar to those found for spiritual icons in the ancient Jain and Hindu traditions. | 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 |
| Buddhist vihara cell structure at the recently excavated brick monastery at Ajanta Coin of Western Satrap Visvasena (293xe2x80x93304), found in the excavations at the monastery Coin of Byzantine Theodosius II (402xe2x80x93450), found in the excavations at the monastery Terracotta plaque of Hindu goddess Mahishasuramardini found on the site | WIKI |
| [283] An alternate theory has been that the fresco represents a Hindu ambassador visiting the Persian king Khusrau II in 625 CE, a theory that Fergusson disagreed with. | WIKI |