Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v2.c8.s15.7

v2.c8.s15.7

The features are highly refined and the fingers exquisitely drawn, but the treatment of the lobes of the ear and the curls of the hair with the tuft (*uṣṇīṣa*) on the crown is absolutely conventional.² The figures are draped with robes, but to conform to the religious tradition, the right arm and chest are exposed in some cases. The delineation of the seats in the form of lotus-flowers is again conventional,³ but in the designs of the cloth of the cushions on which the Buddhas are leaning, the artist has shown his fancy, and we notice several pleasing patterns, apparently representing those in fashion at the time.