*MAP* -- Section 10, top margin B, left margin b; about halfway between Poona and Bombay (not clearly shown on this map)

Surya's chariot crushing a demon (left) and an elephant-rider, probably Indra (right), in Cave 19: *"Close view of sculpture round doorway at right side of verandah of the small Buddhist Vihara, Bhaja Caves," a photo by Henry Cousens, c.1880* (BL);
also: *"Exterior view of Buddhist Chaitya Hall (Cave XII), Bhaja Caves, Pune District"* [*Cousens 1880b*];
also: *"Close view of sculpture on right side of back wall of verandah of the small Buddhist Vihara, Bhaja Caves"* [*Cousens 1880c*];
also: *"Group of dagobas (stupas) from the east, Bhaja Caves, Pune District"* [*Cousens 1880d*]


Entrance to the rock-cut Buddhist temple (vihara), Cave 12, at Bhaja, Maharashtra, 2nd-1st c. BCE

Source: http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/wat4/museum1?museum=Karla&cd=7219-3282-0138:7219-3282-0137:7219-3282-0139&country=Inde&col=pays
["Karla," section 1 (of 3), page 1, image 3] Note: this is MISLABELED by Berger, it is really Bhaja!
(downloaded March 2000)


*A very large photo of the entrance above*

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paddy712/30834223/
(downloaded Sept. 2006)


*The same entrance, viewed from the other side*

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhananjay/219712085/
(downloaded Sept. 2006)


A rock-cut worship hall (chaitya) with its stupa

Source: Courtesy of Prof. Frederick Asher, Univ. of Minnesota, October 1999


The chaitya hall at Bhaja-- a closer look

Source: http://www2m.biglobe.ne.jp/~ZenTech/gaiphoto/p14_india/bhaja/Dscn1996_m.jpg
(downloaded May 2005)


An interior wall at Bhaja, showing niches

Source: Courtesy of Frederick Asher, Univ. of Minnesota, October 1999


The setting of the Surya and Indra bas-reliefs from Cave 19

Source: Courtesy of Prof. Frederick Asher, Univ. of Minnesota, October 1999


Bhaja-- the carved "rafters" that imitate wooden beam construction

Source: http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/wat4/museum1?museum=Bha&cd=7219-3282-0139&country=Inde&col=pays
[choose "Bhaja" in lower left window, set 1 (of 1), page 2, image 6]
(downloaded March 2000)


An individual sleeping room with rock-cut bed, Bhaja

Source: Courtesy of Prof. Frederick Asher, Univ. of Minnesota, October 1999


Bhaja: a group of stupas in the rain

Source: http://www2m.biglobe.ne.jp/~ZenTech/gaiphoto/p14_india/bhaja/Dscn2045_rm.jpg
(downloaded May 2005)


The caves in their setting

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevennineteen/240582052/
(downloaded Sept. 2006)


The Bhaja caves seen from afar

Source: http://www.amitkulkarni.info/pics/lohagad_old/digital_image_pages/lohagad_trek25.html
(downloaded May 2006)



 
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