CAVE 1

The scenes depicted in the paintings of Cave 1 are mostly didactic, devotional, and ornamental, with scenes from the Jataka stories of the Buddha's former lives as a Bodhisattva, the life of the Gautama Buddha, and those of his veneration. The two most famous individual painted images at Ajanta are the two over-lifesize figures of the protective Bodhisattva Padmapani and Vajrapani.

 

Other significant frescoes in Cave 1 include the Sibi, Sankhapala, Mahajanaka, Mahaummagga, and Champeyya Jataka tales. The cave-paintings also show the Temptation of Mara, the miracle of Sravasti where the Buddha simultaneously manifests in many forms, the story of Nanda, and the story of Siddhartha and Yasodhara

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