Abstract

About fifty kilometer  from Jalgan, in Khandesh, on the side of Aravina, in the last century were discovered the twenty nine rock-cut cave temples of Ajanta.  The lonely horse-shoe shaped rock, overlooking a small stream, seems, to have been cut off from the world from early times.  It must have  been  carved  into  spacious  prayer  halls, with  giant  sculptures  of  the Buddha.  And the walls of these temples were entirely covered with paintings. The first impression of what has survived of these of picture gallery of sheer grandeur.