worldhistoryfacts:A chaitya hall (shrine) in one of the Buddhist cave temples at Ajanta, built in th

worldhistoryfacts:A chaitya hall (shrine) in one of the Buddhist cave temples at Ajanta, built in the 5th century CE. The monasteries and temples here are carved into a massive rock wall inside a gorge in west-central India. These caves were overgrown by jungle and unknown to outsiders until a British tiger hunter was taken there by local residents in 1819. The British hunter, John Smith, promptly carved his name into the wall on top of a millennium-old painting.{WHF} {HTE} -- source link
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