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3G6 BUDDHIST CAVE-TEMPLES.
and horseback, musical entertainments, and the like, form the prin-
cipal subjects, and the number of women considerably exceeds that
of the men.1
There are no inscriptions to help us either with historical names,
or even the style of their characters, to the age of these caves.
From the simplicity of their sculptures we may perhaps be justified
in relegating them to about a.d. 450 to 500, and regarding the wall
paintings as belonging to the sixth century.
1 See my Notes on the Rock-Temples of Ajantd, pp. 94 ff.
and horseback, musical entertainments, and the like, form the prin-
cipal subjects, and the number of women considerably exceeds that
of the men.1
There are no inscriptions to help us either with historical names,
or even the style of their characters, to the age of these caves.
From the simplicity of their sculptures we may perhaps be justified
in relegating them to about a.d. 450 to 500, and regarding the wall
paintings as belonging to the sixth century.
1 See my Notes on the Rock-Temples of Ajantd, pp. 94 ff.