Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.20

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Here is the spirit of Renunciation: but the life of the spirit appears not as in scornful disgust with the sweet life of earth, opposed and denying; it emerges from that life embodied in the youthful form of a prince of noble birth and breeding, not wasted with asceticism but supple with latent vigour, though gentle in gesture; and he looks not on any single sight but the whole world is in his eyes, and with it an immense, an ineffable compassion. Grandly he emerges, detached yet not isolated from all those variously occupied forms around him; or, if isolated, isolated only in spirit.