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HE wall at the back of the verandah is sculptured instead of being painted, which is unusual at Ajunta, and an evidence for the modern date of the excavation. The style of the sculpture, too, has more of the character we are accustomed to associate with Jaina than with Buddhist art. Its presence, however, gives a richness of effect to this verandah which is wanting in the others, where the paintings have been washed off, from the exposed nature of the situation.

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