Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v3.c13.7

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Cave X (Pls. III–VI). This is a *chaitya* cave which contains the largest number of painted inscriptions. Twenty-one such records have been noticed in this cave, including the four which cannot be traced at present. Of these inscriptions No. 1 (Pl. III) is the earliest, being almost contemporaneous with the inscription of Vāsiṭhīputa Kaṭahādi, a record of whose gift of the façade is found engraved on the façade of this cave. Of the remaining twenty, all of which are votive records, seven are fragmentary and twelve contain the names of the following donors: āchārya Sachiva (No. 2), Śākya monk bhadanta Saṃghagupta (No. 4), Śākya monk āchārya bhadanta Buddhasena (No. 5), bhadanta Buddhasoma (?) (No. 6), Śākya monk Buddha[so*]ma (No. 7), Śākya monk bhadanta Keśava (No. 8), Śākya monk Buddhināga (No. 9), Śākya monk bhadanta Drāḍhadharma (No. 11), Śākya monk bhadanta Droṇavarmman (No. 12), bhadanta Sudatta (Nos. 18-19), and bhadanta Śilabhadra (No. 21). It is not certain whether No. 14, which records the donation of a figure of Vipaśvin, the nineteenth of the twenty-four Buddhas, contains the name of the donor or of his office.