Author: Walter M. Spink
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Keywords: studies, section, india, oriental, handbook, history, development, golden, ajanta
Number of Pages: 435
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 9004148329
ISBN-13: 9789004148321

The twenty-nine Buddhist caves near Ajanta form a devotional complex which ranks as one of the world’s most startling achievements, created at the very apogee of India’s Golden Age. Ajanta: History and Development, to appear as part of the series Handbook of Oriental Studies, present the reader with a systematic treatment of all aspects of the site, the result of forty years of painstaking research in situ by Walter M. Spink. Volume one deals with the historical context in which this dramatic burst of pious activity took place under the reign of Vakataka emperor Harisena, (c. 460