Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v3.c12.s2.5

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The *dvārapāla* is further adorned with a belt of pearls or gold beads, and also with chains of the same metal which hang down to the border of his dress. The jewel-rooms of the Deccan kings seem to have abounded in pearls and gold at all times, for beside the lavish display of such ornaments in the paintings of Ajanta, when we come to the medieval period we find ‘Alāu’d-Dīn Khaljī carrying off a booty of 50 maunds of gold and several maunds of pearls in addition to valuable stuffs and a large number of elephants and horses, after his conquest of the Deccan.¹