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AJANTA. 305
&c. This curiously wooden construction of the roof will be best
explained by the preceding woodcut (53) from a photograph.1 It
is in fact the mode of framing floors and roofs still in use in India
at the present day, and what is here carved in the rock is only
painted in Caves XII., II., and I., with flowers and other ornaments
to fill the interspaces.
There are six cells in each side, two in the back wall, and one in
each end of the verandah. The adytum or shrine is entered direct
from the hall and has a chamber on each side, separated from it by
a screen of two pillars and pilasters. The gigantic statue of Buddha
sits with the feet down and the hands in what is called the dhartna~
cholera mudrd or teaching position, that is, he holds the little finger
of the left hand between the thumb and forefinger of the right,
with the other fingers turned up. There is a passage quite round
the image; and on each side are octagonal pillars screening off side
aisles, entered by small doors from the hall, and further lighted by
small square windows near the roof.
At the left end of the facade of this cave is an inscription of
about 27 lines, unfortunately mutilated, but partially translated by
Dr. Bhau Daji. It begins—" Having first saluted (Buddha who is
renowned) in this world for the removal of the intense fire of misery
of the three worlds.........I shall relate the genealogy of the King
undhyasakti, whose power extended over the great," &c. It
then goes on to mention six or seven other kings of the Vakataka
dynasty; but most of the names are more or less mutilated; they
mostly appear, however, in the Seoni copper-plate grant deciphered
% Mr. J. Prinsep,2 being—
vmdhyasakti, cir. 400 a.d.
Pravarasena I.
Devasena.
Rudrasena I., grandson of Gautami, the daughter of
Bhavanaga:
to*
3
ind h™™ XIrS" Mannin£> formerly Mrs. Speir's, Ancient and Mediaval India. We are
W for this and the following eight woodcuts to the kindness of Miss Manning,
2° was left literary executor to her aunt.
He ""m-^* *°e' Ren9-' v°l- v- PP- 726-731. For another inscription of this dynasty,
- ™y Notes on the Rock Temples of Ajantd, p. 54 ff.
P. 3l0Unmn?bam Kivesalist of a Mga dynasty of Narwar (Archwol. Surv. Rep., vol. ii.
)> wluch l.e considers to have been tributary to the Guptas. If, as we suppose,
u
&c. This curiously wooden construction of the roof will be best
explained by the preceding woodcut (53) from a photograph.1 It
is in fact the mode of framing floors and roofs still in use in India
at the present day, and what is here carved in the rock is only
painted in Caves XII., II., and I., with flowers and other ornaments
to fill the interspaces.
There are six cells in each side, two in the back wall, and one in
each end of the verandah. The adytum or shrine is entered direct
from the hall and has a chamber on each side, separated from it by
a screen of two pillars and pilasters. The gigantic statue of Buddha
sits with the feet down and the hands in what is called the dhartna~
cholera mudrd or teaching position, that is, he holds the little finger
of the left hand between the thumb and forefinger of the right,
with the other fingers turned up. There is a passage quite round
the image; and on each side are octagonal pillars screening off side
aisles, entered by small doors from the hall, and further lighted by
small square windows near the roof.
At the left end of the facade of this cave is an inscription of
about 27 lines, unfortunately mutilated, but partially translated by
Dr. Bhau Daji. It begins—" Having first saluted (Buddha who is
renowned) in this world for the removal of the intense fire of misery
of the three worlds.........I shall relate the genealogy of the King
undhyasakti, whose power extended over the great," &c. It
then goes on to mention six or seven other kings of the Vakataka
dynasty; but most of the names are more or less mutilated; they
mostly appear, however, in the Seoni copper-plate grant deciphered
% Mr. J. Prinsep,2 being—
vmdhyasakti, cir. 400 a.d.
Pravarasena I.
Devasena.
Rudrasena I., grandson of Gautami, the daughter of
Bhavanaga:
to*
3
ind h™™ XIrS" Mannin£> formerly Mrs. Speir's, Ancient and Mediaval India. We are
W for this and the following eight woodcuts to the kindness of Miss Manning,
2° was left literary executor to her aunt.
He ""m-^* *°e' Ren9-' v°l- v- PP- 726-731. For another inscription of this dynasty,
- ™y Notes on the Rock Temples of Ajantd, p. 54 ff.
P. 3l0Unmn?bam Kivesalist of a Mga dynasty of Narwar (Archwol. Surv. Rep., vol. ii.
)> wluch l.e considers to have been tributary to the Guptas. If, as we suppose,
u