Ajanta : history and development. Vol. 2, Arguments about Ajanta / by Walter M. Spink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spink, Walter M.

Series:

Handbuch der Orientalistik. Indien ; Zweite Abteilung, 18/2. Bd.

Handbook of oriental studies. Section two, India = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Indien, 0169-9377 ; v. 18/2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ajanta Caves (India)--History.

Ajanta Caves (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume Two begins with writings by some of the most important critics of Walter Spink's conclusions, interspersed with his own responses, using a thorough analysis of the great Cave 26 to support his assertions. The author then turns to matters of patronage, and to the surprising fact that, unlike most other Buddhist sites, Ajanta was purely \'elitist\', developed by less than a dozen major patrons. Its brief heyday traumatically ended, however, with the death of the great emperor Harisena in about 477, creating political chaos. Ajanta's anxious patrons now joined in a headlong rush to get their shrines dedicated, in order to obtain the expected merit, before they fled the region, abandoning their caves to the monks and local devotees remaining at the now-doomed site. These \'intrusive\' new patrons now filled the caves with their own helter-skelter votive offerings, paying no heed to the well-laid plans of the years before. A similar pattern of patronage is to be found in the redecoration of the earlier Hinayana caves, where the careful planning of the work being done during Harisena's reign is suddenly interrupted by a host of individual votive donations. The volume ends with a new and useful editing of Ajanta inscriptions by Richard S. Cohen.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Walter M. Spink

A discussion of H. Bakker’s The Vakatakas / Walter M. Spink

Cave 26 as an inaugural monument / Walter M. Spink

Cave 26’s complicated development Compared With Upendragupta’s Caitya Cave 19 and Other Caves / Walter M. Spink

Cohen’s “Possible Histories” / Walter M. Spink

Scholarly contributions to Maharashtra Pathik Some Conflicting Views and a Reply / Walter M. Spink

Patronage: Consistent vs. Collapsing / Walter M. Spink

Locating Intrusions in Time / Walter M. Spink

Could any Intrusions Date Before Mid-478? / Walter M. Spink

Caves 9 and 10: Their Redecoration and Their Intrusions / Walter M. Spink

Crises and Cave 1 / Walter M. Spink

The Breakdown of Patronage in the Period of Disruption / Walter M. Spink

Patronage of the Hinayana Caves: Considerations / Walter M. Spink

Cave 10: Redecoration / Walter M. Spink

Cave 10: Intrusions: Summary / Walter M. Spink

Cave 10: The Aisle Paintings: Original and Intrusive / Walter M. Spink

Cave 10: Façade Intrusions / Walter M. Spink

Cave 12 / Walter M. Spink

Cave 9 / Walter M. Spink

The Anomalous Painting on Cave 9’s Rear Wall / Walter M. Spink

Cave 9: Triforium Paintings; Aisle Wall Paintings / Walter M. Spink

Cave 9: Palimpsests and Other Transformations / Walter M. Spink

Cave 9: Intrusions on Pillars / Walter M. Spink

Cave 9: Façade Intrusions / Walter M. Spink

Cave 9: Considerations About Usage / Walter M. Spink

Ajanta’s Inscriptions / Richard S. Cohen

Handbbook of Oriental Studies / Walter M. Spink.

Notes:

Vol. 6: by Walter M. Spink (text) and Naomichi Yaguchi (photographs).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-39913-2

9786611399139

90-474-0935-3

OCLC:

923613451

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047409359 DOI