The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.88

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(²) See GRIFFITHS, The Paintings of Ajaṇṭā, pl. XV (cf. on the plan of the grotto the letter O and X, ibid., pl. IV and pl. VIII) and BURGESS, Notes on the Bauddha Rock Temples of Ajaṇṭā, p. 17; the paintings of this cave are usually attributed to the VIth century. — In Cave II the walls of the antechamber of the sanctuary are likewise adorned with figures of Buddha, of a very inferior make to those of the preceding ones. M. Griffiths counted 1055 of them, measuring about 0 m. 20 high and covering a surface of 22 square metres : he has reproduced some of them, pl. XXIV (cf. p. 28, and BURGESS, loc. cit., p. 35, § XVIII ad fin.). — One may immediately connect with these frescoes the « thousand Buddhas » painted on the vault of the grotto no. 1 of Murtuk, a specimen of which Prof. GRÜNWEDEL has reproduced in his interesting Bericht über Archæologische Arbeiten in Idikut-schari und Umgebung im Winter 1902-1903, pl. XXX : notice the strangely stereotyped character of the support of this Buddha, affecting both a cloud and a lotus.