Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 6 Defining Features

Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 6 Defining Features
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Total Pages : 482
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ISBN-10 : 9789047444657
ISBN-13 : 9047444655
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Download or read book Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 6 Defining Features written by Walter Spink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 6, in Walter Spink's detailed analysis of the creation and development of the Ajanta caves, during the reign of the emperor Harisena (c.460-c.477) has had a profound and often upsetting impact on the understanding of Indian history in the so-called Golden Age. The author contends that through the discipline of Art History one can in fact change the established view of cultural developments in the crucial "Classic Age" (5th Century CE). One of his major aims is to prove that it was the Vakatakas, under the emperor Harisena, and not the Guptas, that brought Indian culture to its apogee in the late 470s and to show that by analyzing and organizing Ajanta's "defining feature" in revealing developmental sequences, one can support, with specifics, the revolutionary (but now increasingly accepted) "short chronology" for which the author is well known. These "defining features" range from the changing types of Buddha images and living arrangements for the monks, to the precise analysis of the evolution of pillars, doorways, and excavation techniques. The volume also includes, at the start, a discussion of the transforming effect of competition, and finally war, as a key to Ajanta's highly driven development, its florescence, and finally its sad demise.


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