Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ajanta Caves' has mentioned 'India' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| 2nd century BCE to 6th century CE Buddhist cave monuments located in Maharashtra, India | WIKI |
| The Buddhist Caves in Ajanta are approximately 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 CE in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. | WIKI |
| [8][11][12] Textual records suggest that these caves served as a monsoon retreat for monks, as well as a resting site for merchants and pilgrims in ancient India. | 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 |
| It is about 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) from Fardapur, 59 kilometres (37 miles) from the city of Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India, 104 kilometres (65 miles) from the city of Aurangabad, and 350 kilometres (220 miles) east-northeast of Mumbai. | WIKI |
| [43] The second phase of constructions and decorations at Ajanta corresponds to the very apogee of Classical India, or India's golden age. | WIKI |
| [44] However, at that time, the Gupta Empire was already weakening from internal political issues and from the assaults of the Hxc5xabxe1xb9x87as, so that the Vakatakas were actually one of the most powerful empires in India. | WIKI |
| [46] Through their control of vast areas of northwestern India, the Huns may actually have acted as a cultural bridge between the area of Gandhara and the Western Deccan, at the time when the Ajanta or Pitalkhora caves were being decorated with some designs of Gandharan inspiration, such as Buddhas dressed in robes with abundant folds. | WIKI |
| Since 1983, Ajanta caves have been listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of India. | WIKI |
| [60][61] Similar methods and application of artist talent is observed in other cave temples of India, such as those from Hinduism and Jainism. | 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 |
| Several fragments of murals preserved from the earlier caves (Caves 10 and 11) are effectively unique survivals of ancient painting in India from this period, and "show that by Sxc4x81tavxc4x81hana times, if not earlier, the Indian painters had mastered an easy and fluent naturalistic style, dealing with large groups of people in a manner comparable to the reliefs of the Sxc4x81xc3xb1cxc4xab toraxc5x86a crossbars". | WIKI |
| Harisena's rule extended the Central Indian Vakataka Empire to include a stretch of the east coast of India; the Gupta Empire ruled northern India at the same period, and the Pallava dynasty much of the south. | WIKI |
| It may well be the oldest Mahayana monastery excavated in India, according to Spink. | WIKI |
| This cave is significant because its scale confirms the influence of Buddhism in South Asia by the 1st century BCE and its continued though declining influence in India through the 5th century CE. | WIKI |
| Next, to the Buddha in the capitals are elephants, horses and flying apsara friezes found elsewhere in India, reflecting the style of the Gupta Empire artwork. | WIKI |
| The copies were published in full colour as the first publication of London's fledgling India Society. | WIKI |
| Reproduction of The Adoration of the Buddha, cave 17, Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, India | WIKI |
| Some slightly creative copies of Ajanta frescos, especially the painting of the Adoration of the Buddha from the shrine antechamber of Cave 17, were commissioned by Thomas Holbein Hendley (1847xe2x80x931917) for the decoration of the walls of the hall of the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur, India. | WIKI |
| Another attempt to make copies of the murals was made by the Japanese artist Arai Kampxc5x8d (xe8x8dx92xe4xbax95xe5xafx9bxe6x96xb9:1878xe2x80x931945) after being invited by Rabindranath Tagore to India to teach Japanese painting techniques. | WIKI |
| The Ajanta cave arts are a window into the culture, society and religiosity of the native population of India between the 2nd century BCE and 5th century CE. | WIKI |
| They shine "light on life in India" around mid 1st millennium CE. | WIKI |
| These friezes share themes and details of those found in Bharhut, Sanchi, Amaravati, Ellora, Bagh, Aihole, Badami and other archaeological sites in India. | 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 |
| [281][284] These assumptions by colonial British era art historians, state Spink and other scholars, has been responsible for wrongly dating this painting to the 7th century, when in fact this reflects an incomplete Harisena-era painting of a Jataka tale (the Mahasudarsana jataka, in which the enthroned king is actually the Buddha in one of his previous lives as King) with the representation of trade between India and distant lands such as Sassanian near East that was common by the 5th century. | WIKI |
| Such murals, states Pia Brancaccio, suggest a prosperous and multicultural society in 5th-century India active in international trade. | WIKI |
| While scholars generally agree that these murals confirm trade and cultural connections between India and Sassanian west, their specific significance and interpretation varies. | WIKI |
| [287][285] Brancaccio, for example, suggests that the ship and jars in them probably reflect foreign ships carrying wine imported to India. | WIKI |
| The rediscovery of ancient Indian paintings at Ajanta provided Indian artists with examples from ancient India to follow. | WIKI |