Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Ajanta Cave

Maharashtra, one of the many ancient relics that exist in India. The amazing thing in this cave paintings are too many Buddha statues of high artistic value. It is estimated, the monuments that exist in this cave started to work on in the 2nd century BC. But the caves at Ajanta are then 
abandoned. During the 1300 years of this abandoned cave, on theoutside, shrub growing in height, eventually becoming a forest automatically hide the existence of this cave. No one ever knew that there saved 'world heritage' incredible. Until finally in the spring of 1819 a British officer, accidentally entered the steep canyonThe deeper he went in there, and he was outstanding because he was surprised to find a door hidden in one cave. This is the first visit after thousands of years humans. When found the cave was home and bat birds and other animals. Captain Smith then make the first exploration to know the content of the mysterious cave. Captain Smith's name is unknown, because the corresponding write his name on the cave wall and coming year. He wrote, Captain Smith, April 1819. And now the Ajanta caves is the most beautiful cave in India, is an asset and pride of India's largest cave

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