Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.s1.5

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TO appreciate the romantic beauty of the valley where these Buddhist shrines are hewn in solid rock, the visitor must go to Ajanta immediately after the rains, when the waterfall presents a glorious spectacle, and the Waghora river attains a breadth and volume which can never be imagined in summer (*Frontispiece* and Plate II). The rich variety of trees and shrubs with their magnificent foliage and flowers adds to the charm of the landscape, and the panorama might well inspire spiritual thought and artistic expression now, as it did in the Buddhist fifteen hundred years ago.