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ID: 7547703
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7547703
Record Type:
administrative
Ajanta Caves (sacred site)
Coordinates:
Lat: 20 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 20.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 075 42 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 75.7000
decimal degrees
Note:
Site of Buddhist rock-cut cave temples, monasteries, and wall paintings; between 1st century BCE-7th century CE 30 caves were hollowed out of granite cliffs; Buddhist legends and divinities are the subject matter.
Names:
Ajanta Caves
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
LC
,
English
,
U
)
Ajantha Caves
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
India
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mahārāshtra
(state) (
P
)
................
Ajanta Caves
(sacred site) (
P,
U
)
Place Types:
sacred site (
preferred
,
C
)
monastery (
H
)
caves (
C
)
rock-cut architecture (
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Ajanta
.......... (inhabited place)
..............................
(World, Asia, India, Mahārāshtra) [7001495]
Sources and Contributors:
Ajanta Caves..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
sh 95005354; accessed 24 February 2016
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
Ajantha Caves..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
accessed 24 February 2016
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-2088324
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
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