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LATER BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
though even here much has been wilfully destroyed * since they became
known to European visitors.
In the hall the paintings are tolerably entire, but so smoked
and dirty that little or nothing can be seen over large areas. On
the wall of the left aisle are two large and interesting scenes, whose
story might be made out if we had only copies of them. On the left
end of the back wall is a very large one. So much of which, as was
transferred from Major Gill's copy, is given in the accompanying
woodcut from Mrs. Speir's Aiicient India.2 In it a king is re-
No. 60. Wall painting in Cave No. XVII. Ajayta, from Mrs. Speir's Life in Ancient India.
1 Mr. Griffiths proposed years ago that doors and shutters should be employe
shut out ba;s and nest building insects from the few caves that contain much^ P» o
but this excellent suggestion was only carried out in the case of Cave I. »e
caves anywhere else but in India they would be most carefully looked alter.
2 P. 313.
LATER BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
though even here much has been wilfully destroyed * since they became
known to European visitors.
In the hall the paintings are tolerably entire, but so smoked
and dirty that little or nothing can be seen over large areas. On
the wall of the left aisle are two large and interesting scenes, whose
story might be made out if we had only copies of them. On the left
end of the back wall is a very large one. So much of which, as was
transferred from Major Gill's copy, is given in the accompanying
woodcut from Mrs. Speir's Aiicient India.2 In it a king is re-
No. 60. Wall painting in Cave No. XVII. Ajayta, from Mrs. Speir's Life in Ancient India.
1 Mr. Griffiths proposed years ago that doors and shutters should be employe
shut out ba;s and nest building insects from the few caves that contain much^ P» o
but this excellent suggestion was only carried out in the case of Cave I. »e
caves anywhere else but in India they would be most carefully looked alter.
2 P. 313.