List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Aurangabad?; Chapter One The Caves; Chapter Two The Beginnings at Aurangabad; Chapter Three The Aurangabad Renaissance in the Fifth Century; Chapter Four Buddhist Practice at Aurangabad in the Sixth Century; Chapter Five The Eastern Group of Caves; Chapter Six Summary and Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; ILLUSTRATION SECTION
Summary
This is a study that focuses on the art and architecture of a group of Buddhist rock-cut monuments excavated on the western edge of the Deccan Plateau in India. It analyses the various cultural, historical and religious phenomena that shaped the caves at Aurangabad through the first seven centuries of the Common Era and it comments on the Buddhist tradition of the western Deccan as a whole. The result is a comprehensive work that does not address exclusively iconography and chronology, but looks beyond Aurangabad to the larger artistic and religious traditions of the Indian Subcontinent
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index
