The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c17.61

c17.61

Then, when dark clouds began to gather over Bharata-varsha, when the black plague was raging, and savage hordes of barbarians poured down the Indus valley in the darkest days of the Kali age,¹ began the tâmasic aspect of Ajantâ’s life. It is then that the divine powers of destruction, death, and re-birth should be worshipped in fear, but with hope and faith. That was the time when the eastern tip of Siva’s crest became the lodging-place of the scholars of Ajantâ; there, in those splendid chaitya-houses, they worshipped the Lord who looks down with infinite love upon His children, even when His work of destruction is going on. He knows there is no death!