At the Ajanta Caves what to see
Cave 16 – A beautiful painting of the princess Sundari after learning that her husband (Nanda, the Buddha’s half-brother) was going to become a monk fainting featuring that this is a Mahayana monastery.
Cave 15, 13, 12 – These are the Theravada monastery caves.
Cave 10 – This is a prayer hall of Theravada tradition, dating to the 2nd century BC at Ajanta Caves thought to be the oldest cave temple.
Cave 9 – Among the caves one of the earliest prayer hall, for its arched windows its notable, in the cave that let softly diffused sunlight. A large stupa is also features the Theravada cave.
Cave 8 – This is a Theravada monastery cave.
Cave 4 – This cave is incomplete, but among the Ajanta Caves monasteries this is the largest.
Cave 2 – The King of Naga and their entourage shows the façade of this Mahayana monastery cave. Inside the cave, dominates the ceiling a glorious mandala, with flowers, fruits, abstract designs and birds decorated and held by demons. In the middle to the sag right down, of a cloth canopy the ceiling gives the effects.
Cave 1 – At Ajanta Caves among the monastery caves this is the most popular. The wall was originally painted every inch of the cave, though over the century much has worn away. By the murals of two great bodhisattvas is flanked the doorways to the antechamber. In Mahayana Buddhism the most important bodhisattva is Avalokitesvara (or Vajrapani), a thunderbolt holding, on the right. In the left there is the bodhisattva Padmapani who holding a water lily.
From the Buddha’s life two scenes show the sidewalls of the Cave 1’s antechamber, just before his enlightenment by Mara his temptation and the miracle of the Sravasti, into thousand images where the Buddha multiplied. There are the friezes of the Three Signs (a corpse, a sick man and an old man) above the left porch of the Cave 1, outside the palace which led him to become a monk on his fruitful journey that the Buddha saw. In the preaching pose there is a colossal sculpture of the Buddha in the sanctum. Depicts the previous lives stories of Gautama Buddha and numerous Jataka Tales by the murals on the walls of the main hall.
How to get there
According to the Archaeological Survey of India the total number of annual visitors are 416,057. For the visitor the Ajanta Caves are not easily accessible, but that was the point of course. From the nearest major town, Aurangabad between 2 and 3 hours the drive takes.
The most sensible and the quickest way is to fly Jet Airways (cost about $75 and about 45 minutes) to get to Aurangabad airport from Mumbai, according to Frommer’s. Jalgaon is the nearest train station, with many cities in India which connected. From Jalgaon 28 km Bhusaval is an even more major station. The visitors can take a taxi to Ajanta Caves from Jalgaon.
At Aurangabd airport and Jlgaon train station are widely available the taxis and auto-rickshaws. Should cost the visitors about Rs 100 into the city a taxi from the airport. There is the MTDC Holiday Resort in the airports arrival area, for the caves which provides tour bookings and the brochures. If the visitors want a car and driver for full day they will have to cost only Rs 1,200 ($26).
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