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    Q.2 Write Short Notes On Rock-Cut Sculptures of A Cave Temples?

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    Indian rock-cut architecture has many more examples than any other form, with craftsmen carving structures out of solid rock. Cave temples in India served religious purposes and were regarded as sacred places for Buddhists to live ascetically. The earliest examples include the Ajanta Caves from the 1st-2nd centuries BCE, which were continuously occupied by Buddhist monks until 650 CE and hosted traders along inland routes. Over centuries, simple caves took on more elaborate interiors with paintings, reliefs, and carvings, resembling three-dimensional buildings as skilled artisans imitated wooden structures in stone. Approximately 1200 cave temples still exist today, most Buddhist, preserving the monks' residences called Viharas and shrine halls

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    Indian rock-cut architecture has many more examples than any other form, with craftsmen carving structures out of solid rock. Cave temples in India served religious purposes and were regarded as sacred places for Buddhists to live ascetically. The earliest examples include the Ajanta Caves from the 1st-2nd centuries BCE, which were continuously occupied by Buddhist monks until 650 CE and hosted traders along inland routes. Over centuries, simple caves took on more elaborate interiors with paintings, reliefs, and carvings, resembling three-dimensional buildings as skilled artisans imitated wooden structures in stone. Approximately 1200 cave temples still exist today, most Buddhist, preserving the monks' residences called Viharas and shrine halls

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    Indian rock-cut architecture has many more examples than any other form, with craftsmen carving structures out of solid rock. Cave temples in India served religious purposes and were regarded as sacred places for Buddhists to live ascetically. The earliest examples include the Ajanta Caves from the 1st-2nd centuries BCE, which were continuously occupied by Buddhist monks until 650 CE and hosted traders along inland routes. Over centuries, simple caves took on more elaborate interiors with paintings, reliefs, and carvings, resembling three-dimensional buildings as skilled artisans imitated wooden structures in stone. Approximately 1200 cave temples still exist today, most Buddhist, preserving the monks' residences called Viharas and shrine halls

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    Indian rock-cut architecture has many more examples than any other form, with craftsmen carving structures out of solid rock. Cave temples in India served religious purposes and were regarded as sacred places for Buddhists to live ascetically. The earliest examples include the Ajanta Caves from the 1st-2nd centuries BCE, which were continuously occupied by Buddhist monks until 650 CE and hosted traders along inland routes. Over centuries, simple caves took on more elaborate interiors with paintings, reliefs, and carvings, resembling three-dimensional buildings as skilled artisans imitated wooden structures in stone. Approximately 1200 cave temples still exist today, most Buddhist, preserving the monks' residences called Viharas and shrine halls

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     Indian rock-cut architecture has more examples than any other form of rock-cut
    architecture in the world. Rock-cut architecture defines the practice of creating a
    structure by carving it out of solid natural rock. The craftsman removes rock not part
    of the structure until the architectural elements of the excavated interior constitute
    the only rock left. Indian rock-cut architecture, for the most part, is religious in nature.
    In India, caves  have long been regarded as places of sanctity. Enlarged or entirely
    man-made caves hold the same sanctity as natural caves. The sanctuary in all Indian
    religious structures, even free standing ones, retain the same cave-like feeling of
    sacredness, being small and dark without natural light. When Buddhist  missionaries
    arrived, they naturally gravitated to caves for use as cave temples and abodes, in accord with
    their religious ideas of asceticism and the monastic life. The Western Ghats topography with
    its flat-topped hills, deep ravines, and sharp cliffs, suited well to their natural inclinations.
    Ajanta constitutes the earliest of the Kanheri Caves, excavated in the first and second
    centuries B.C.E. Buddhist monks continuously occupied them from 200 B.C.E. to
    650 C.E. Buddhist practices encouraged compatibility with trade, monasteries becoming
    stopovers for inland traders. They provided lodging houses usually located near trade routes.
    As their mercantile and royal endowments grew, cave interiors became more elaborate with
    interior walls decorated with paintings and reliefs and intricate carvings. Craftsmen added
    facades to the exteriors as the interiors became designated for specific uses as monasteries
    and worship halls. Over the centuries, simple caves began to resemble three-dimensional
    buildings, needing formal design and requiring highly skilled artisans and craftsmen to
    complete. Those artisans had not forgotten their timber roots and imitated the nuances of a
    wooden structure and the wood grain in working with stone. Early examples of rock cut
    architecture include the Buddhist and Jain cave basadi temple many with chandrashalas. The
    aesthetic nature of those religions inclined their followers to live in natural caves and grottoes
    in the hillsides, away from the cities, and those became enhanced and embellished over time.
    Although many temples, monasteries and stupas had been destroyed, by contrast cave
    temples have been extremely well preserved. Situated in out-of-the-way places, hidden from
    view, the caves have been less visible and therefore less vulnerable to vandalism. The durably
    of rock, over wood and masonry structures, has contributed to their preservation.
    Approximately 1200 cave temples still exist, most of them Buddhist. Monks called their
    residences Viharas and the cave shrines Chaityas. Buddhists used both Viharas and Caityas for
    congregational worship. The earliest rock-cut , similar to free-standing ones later, had an
    inner circular chamber with pillars to create a circumambulatory path around the stupa and
    an outer rectangular hall for the congregation.
    Fig: Ajanta Caves Fig: Kanheri Beds

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