The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra,
India are about 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd
century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE.The caves include paintings and sculptures
described by the government Archaeological Survey of India as "the finest
surviving examples of Indian art, particularly painting", which are
masterpieces of Buddhist religious art, with figures of the Buddha and depictions
of the Jataka tales.The caves were built in two phases starting around the 2nd
century BCE, with the second group of caves built around 400–650 CE according
to older accounts, or all in a brief period of 460 to 480 according to the
recent proposals of Walter M. Spink. The site is a protected monument in the
care of the Archaeological Survey of India, and since 1983, the Ajanta Caves
have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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