Ajanta : history and development : defining features / Walter Spink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spink, Walter, author.

Series:

Handbook of oriental studies. Section two, South Asia.

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section two, South Asia ; Volume 18/6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--China--History.

Law.

Justice, Administration of--China--History.

Justice, Administration of.

Practice of law--China--History.

Practice of law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Koninklijke Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume 6, in Walter Spink's detailed analysis of the creation and development of the Ajanta caves, during the reign of the emperor Harisena (c.460-c.477) has had a profound and often upsetting impact on the understanding of Indian history in the so-called Golden Age. The author contends that through the discipline of Art History one can in fact change the established view of cultural developments in the crucial \'Classic Age\' (5th Century CE). One of his major aims is to prove that it was the Vakatakas, under the emperor Harisena, and not the Guptas, that brought Indian culture to its apogee in the late 470s and to show that by analyzing and organizing Ajanta's \'defining feature\' in revealing developmental sequences, one can support, with specifics, the revolutionary (but now increasingly accepted) \'short chronology\' for which the author is well known. These \'defining features\' range from the changing types of Buddha images and living arrangements for the monks, to the precise analysis of the evolution of pillars, doorways, and excavation techniques. The volume also includes, at the start, a discussion of the transforming effect of competition, and finally war, as a key to Ajanta's highly driven development, its florescence, and finally its sad demise.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Walter M. Spink and Naomichi Yaguchi

Chapter 1: The Usages of War / Walter M. Spink and Naomichi Yaguchi

Chapter 2: Regarding Important Time Chart Changes / Walter M. Spink and Naomichi Yaguchi

Chapter 3: Defining Features / Walter M. Spink and Naomichi Yaguchi

Chapter 4: Illustrations and Labels / Walter M. Spink and Naomichi Yaguchi

Summary of Evidence Bearing upon the Disputed Dating of Harisena’s Reign / Walter M. Spink and Naomichi Yaguchi.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-474-4465-5

OCLC:

877770590

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047444657 DOI