Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v4.c15.53

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head and twisted moustaches, hailing from Benares and Prayāg; the long-haired Oriyā Brahman naked down to his waist, with only a striped scarf (*angochhā*) round his shoulders, such as he wears to this day;¹ and the wrinkled face of the Madras priest with horizontal lines of paint drawn across his forehead as a religious symbol.²