Site Name: Ajanta
Date: 451-499 CE
Subject: Left wing, lower, garbhagrha, doorway
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Cave 27 should be considered a part of Cave 26 as it connected to its monastic establishment. It was sponsored by Monk Buddhabhadra, a friend of Bhavviraja, a minister of the king of Asmaka. In 478CE. The landing and the verandah on the left side of the court of Cave 26 lead to a small hall, which has a shrine and an antechamber facing the entrance door. It consists of two stories; the upper one is partially collapsed. The front wall is divided into three compartments comprising of a nagaraja, a couple and a female standing on a makara with a bird perched on her right hand and her left handing resting on the head of a dwarf. The shrine has an image of Buddha in teaching attitude on its back wall. Of the cells around the hall, only four on the right half have survived. A major part of the left half of the hall has collapsed.
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