Ajanta: The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography v4.c17.9

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It is perhaps not unlikely that it was originally intended to decorate this cave also with the usual mural paintings and that these records in red paint contained, for the guidance of the artists, the titles of particular scenes (perhaps from the Dasaratha Jātaka in the above instance) which were to be painted on a particular portion of the wall.