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² Painted inscriptions in Cave II have been dealt with by Mr. John Allan in the Appendix of *Ajanta*, Text, Pt. II, pp. 57–64. I may, however, take this opportunity of pointing out that in No. 11 of Allan’s inscription the second line correctly reads *Budha(ddha-)sahasraṃ*, or ‘thousand Buddhas’. Apparently the Buddhist lay worshipper whose name is lost in the record wanted to donate the figures of one thousand Buddhas. Cave II at Ajanta reminds one of the ‘Cave of the Thousand Buddhas’ at Tun-Huang in Central Asia, and this also should be properly named the ‘Cave of the Thousand Buddhas’.