Indian art and culture / Architecture
Rock-cut architecture: chaityas, viharas and cave complexes
Practise 5 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Chaitya as the apsidal worship hall with a stupa; vihara as the residential hall with cells
- Bhaja, Karle, Kanheri, Nasik (Pandulena), Junnar, Kondane, Bedsa: Hinayana phase, wooden prototypes
- Ajanta (Satavahana and Vakataka phases, Waghora gorge), Ellora (Buddhist, Hindu, Jain; Kailasa), Bagh, Aurangabad caves
- Udayagiri and Khandagiri (Kharavela), Sittanavasal (Pandya, Jain), Ellora Jain group, Badami cave 4, Gwalior
- Udayagiri (Vidisha) Varaha, Elephanta, Badami, Mamallapuram mandapas and rathas, Undavalli, Masrur
- Sequence: Barabar (earliest), western Deccan Hinayana, Ajanta Mahayana, Badami and Ellora; Badami not the oldest