Ajanta:  Cave 10, chaitya hall, dated 150 B.C.

Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Ajanta: Cave 10, chaitya hall, dated 150 B.C.

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dc.contributor.author	Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatial	India (Ajanta, Maharashtra)
dc.date.accessioned	2019-05-24T06:00:21Z
dc.date.available	2019-05-24T06:00:21Z
dc.date.created	circa 1970s
dc.identifier	ANUA 682-767
dc.identifier.other	IA-867
dc.identifier.other	IA-867
dc.identifier.other	3
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1885/163535
dc.description	Chaitya hall No. 10 is the oldest construction at Ajanta and may be dated to the 2nd century B.C. It is larger than the succeeding chaityas and measures 96 feet 6 inches in depth by 41 feet 3 inches in width internally, and 36 feet in height, Around the long rectangular nave and apse is a narrow aisle separated from the main part of the temple by 59 plain octagonal pillars, which are slightly bent toward the center of the cave and have neither bases nor capitals, At one time, wooden ribs radiated outward from the pillars, and their marks can still be detected in the roof though the wood has long since deteriorated, Great care in planning is evident in this early hall, and though the decoration is austerely applied it is gracious, At the back of the nave, in the apse of the hall, is the model stupa which the faithful would have circumambulated by the aisles during their worship at the hall, The stupa itself is different in conception from those post-dating it (in the age of King Asoka, for example) for it is not a half-domed, sphered, but an elongated bubble similar to those stupas constructed in the Gupta Period, Originally, bonds of sculptured decoration encircled the stupa at its midsection, These decorations are just visible today and are badly decayed,
dc.format.extent	35mm
dc.format.medium	mounted transparency
dc.format.medium	b&w
dc.format.medium	sepia
dc.format.mimetype	image/tiff
dc.language.iso	en_AU
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Basham Collection
dc.subject	Cave 10 c. 150 B.C. [Ajanta]
dc.subject	architecture
dc.subject	mounted transparency set
dc.title	Ajanta: Cave 10, chaitya hall, dated 150 B.C.
dc.type	Image
dc.date.updated	2019-05-24T06:00:21Z
dc.provenance	Digitised by the Australian National University in 2019
dc.rights.license	This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
Collections	Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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