The Frescos Ajanta
The Frescos Ajanta
The Frescos Ajanta
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HE chaityasof Ajanta,which
closely resemble
apsed
churches, and the ancient
viharas, or monastery halls,
are excavated in a great scarp
of a greyvolcanic rock.(amygdaloidal trap) in the wide
ravine which has been dug
out by the torrent Waghora, a stream of considerable volume in the rains, but normally only a
series of quiet pools among shelving boulders.
Ajanth is in the jagir, or fief, of Sir Salar Jung,
in the extreme north-west of the state of Hyderabad, Deccan.
I first visited Ajantaiin 19o6, and brought back
a small water-colour sketch of some colossal
figures. Mr. Binyon, to whom I showed this,
was so much impressed that I was encouraged in
the notion of returning and making some careful
specimen copies, in the hope that this might lead
to a more fully organized expedition which could
undertakea complete record.
Through the kindness of influential friends here
and in India, representationswere made to the
Hyderabad Government which led to their providing me with a protected camp, for Ajanta is in the
best shikairor hunting district in the jagir. This
Government also provided me with two young
men, trained in the School of Art in Bombay, and
several young Indian artists from Calcutta joined
us. Thus it seemed best to consider that we were
ourselves at work on that record which I had only
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whites.
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