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ARCHITECTURE SCULPTURE AND PAINTING
...At the right end of the front aisle of the Hall there is carved a chaitya in half relief
and on the other two walls appear a number of seated and standing Buddhas. According
to Burgess, these were carved at some later date.
...The present cave differs in certain respects from Cave XVI at Ajaṇṭā. It is supposed
by some to be anterior to the latter on the basis of the general architectural style and the
sculpture in it1, but the inscription of Varāhadēva incised therein leaves no doubt that
it is of the same age as the aforementioned caves at Ajaṇṭā. Any differences that may be
noticed in the architecture and sculpture of the two caves must be attributed to individual
workmanship and not to a difference in their age.
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