Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v1.c4.6

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Let us first consider the general effect of the paintings. (I am obliged to write of the impression made by the reproductions; no doubt this impression would be enriched and intensified by sight of the originals.) The interior of the *vihāra* to which the present volume is devoted, as we see it in Plate IV, shows us the disposition of the paintings on the walls and the ceiling, and reveals also the injury of Time and such defacement as has been caused by hands of men. All the lower portions of the frescoes have perished.