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Ajanta 13 - Cave 19

The Ajanta Caves are rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar District of Maharashtra state in India.

They are universally regarded as masterpieces of Buddhist religious art.

They were covered by jungle until accidentally "discovered" and brought to Western attention in 1819 by a colonial British officer Captain John Smith on a tiger-hunting party.

 

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