Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v4.c16.64

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The sculpture of this *vihāra* is badly weathered and several columns and some portions of walls are completely destroyed; but those which are intact show careful workmanship (Plates LXXXI*b*-LXXXII). The *vihāra*, however, is small and could never have been imposing, even if it had been finished according to the plan. As it is attached to the *chaitya*-Cave XXVI, it was probably excavated about the same time as the latter, that is, about the close of the fifth or the beginning of the sixth century A.D.¹