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Ajanta: Cave 2, detail of column,

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dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialIndia (Ajanta, Maharashtra)
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-24T05:59:47Z
dc.date.available2019-05-24T05:59:47Z
dc.date.createdcirca 1970s
dc.date.updated2019-05-24T05:59:47Z
dc.descriptionDecorating the columns of the nave in Cave 2 are more figures of the gods inhabiting the Buddha's paradise, They form a row of sacred courtiers in the nave of the hall and sit in Buddha fashion with attendants as if collected in mass to meditate with the master, They do, instead, talk or gesture with their attendants from their seated postures so that the spectator seems to be a part of the divine conversation without actually being invited to speak, The god shown in our detail is Naga, king of the serpent deities, who live beneath the earth's crust and keep the precious minerals there, Behind his head is the atrribute of the numbus of hooded snakes, which also characterize Vishnu and occasionally the Tirthankaras (saviors) of the Jainan religion, We may notice in this illustration that the style of painting resembles Gupta sculpture in that the background is left plain to frame the figures appearing within the picture place,en_AU
dc.format.extent35mmen_AU
dc.format.mediummounted transparencyen_AU
dc.format.mediumb&wen_AU
dc.format.mediumsepiaen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeimage/tiffen_AU
dc.identifierANUA 682-760en_AU
dc.identifier.otherIA-860en_AU
dc.identifier.otherIA-860
dc.identifier.other23
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/163528
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2019
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBasham Collection
dc.rights.licenseThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
dc.subjectCave II 5th cent. A.D. [Ajanta]en_AU
dc.subjectarchitectureen_AU
dc.subjectmuralsen_AU
dc.subjectmounted transparency seten_AU
dc.titleAjanta: Cave 2, detail of column,
dc.typeImage
dspace.entity.typeANUArchivesItem

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