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Ajanta: Year by Year is planned as a biography of this remarkable site, starting with the earliest caves, dating from some two thousand years, to its startling renaissance in the brief period between approximately 462 and 480. Concentrating on the excavations of the later period, during the reign of the Vakataka emperor Harisena, it attempts to show how, after a surprising gap of some three hundred years, Ajanta’s proud and pious courtly patrons and its increasingly committed workmen created not only the greatest but the latest monument of India’s Golden Age. Nearly three hundred illustrations, in color and black and white, reveal the exuberant flowering of Ajanta and related Vakataka monuments, as well as the manner of their sudden demise.

Ajanta (India) -- History. --- Vakataka dynasty -- History. --- Ajanta Caves (India) --- Buddhist antiquities --- Antiquités bouddhiques --- Ajan̲t̲ā (Inde : Site archéologique) --- History --- India --- Inde --- Histoire --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия --- Ajantha Caves (India) --- History. --- Archeologische vindplaatsen. --- Heiligdommen. --- Höhlentempel. --- Ajanta Caves (India) - History

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Volume Five comprises, along with introductory comments, two "cave by cave" guides. One which, very briefly, describes the character of each cave and its patronage, is intended to be useful for the general visitor to the site. The other, very detailed, discusses the position and peculiarities of each cave in relation to the overall, year by year, development of the site. This volume also contains a complete set of cave plans, and various illuminating charts, graphs, outlines, and maps.

Archeologische vindplaatsen. --- Heiligdommen. --- Antiquit{acute}es bouddhiques --- Aja{dotb}n{dotb}t{macr}a (Inde : Site arch{acute}eologique) --- Inde --- Ajanta Caves (India) --- Ajantha Caves (India) --- Histoire --- History. --- Antiquités bouddhiques --- Ajaṇṭā (Inde : Site archéologique) --- Buddhist antiquities --- India --- Ajan̲t̲ā (Inde : Site archéologique) --- History

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Volume 6, in Walter Spink's detailed analysis of the creation and development of the Ajanta caves, during the reign of the emperor Harisena (c.460-c.477) has had a profound and often upsetting impact on the understanding of Indian history in the so-called Golden Age. The author contends that through the discipline of Art History one can in fact change the established view of cultural developments in the crucial 'Classic Age' (5th Century CE). One of his major aims is to prove that it was the Vakatakas, under the emperor Harisena, and not the Guptas, that brought Indian culture to its apogee in the late 470s and to show that by analyzing and organizing Ajanta's 'defining feature' in revealing developmental sequences, one can support, with specifics, the revolutionary (but now increasingly accepted) 'short chronology' for which the author is well known. These 'defining features' range from the changing types of Buddha images and living arrangements for the monks, to the precise analysis of the evolution of pillars, doorways, and excavation techniques. The volume also includes, at the start, a discussion of the transforming effect of competition, and finally war, as a key to Ajanta's highly driven development, its florescence, and finally its sad demise.

Ajanta Caves (India) --- Ajantha Caves (India) --- History. --- Law --- Justice, Administration of --- Practice of law --- Law practice --- Practice