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| name = Bagh Caves | native_name = Bagh Caves | alternate_name = | image = Buddhist Caves No.1 to 7 8.JPG | imagealttext = The Bagh caves | caption = The Bagh caves | map_type = India |relief=yes | map_alt = | coordinates = {{Coord|22|19|21.63|N|74|48|22.36|E|display=inline, title}} | location = | region = | type = Buddhist caves | part_of = | length = | width = | area = | height = | builder = | material = | built = | abandoned = | epochs = | cultures = | dependency_of = | occupants = | event = | excavations = | archaeologists = | condition = | ownership = | public_access = | website = | notes = }} The Bagh Caves are a group of nine rock-cut monuments, situated among the southern slopes of the Vindhyas in Bagh town of Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh state in central India.[1] These monuments are located at a distance of 97 km from Dhar town. These are renowned for mural paintings by master painters of ancient India. The use of the word "cave" is a bit of a misnomer, since these are not natural, but instead examples of Indian rock-cut architecture. The Bagh caves, like those at Ajanta, were excavated by master craftsmen on perpendicular sandstone rock face of a hill on the far bank of a seasonal stream, the Baghani. Buddhist in inspiration, of the nine caves, only five have survived. All of them are 'viharas' or resting places of monks monasteries having quadrangular plan. A small chamber, usually at the back, forms the 'chaitya', the prayer hall. Most significant of these five extant caves is the Cave 4, commonly known as the Rang Mahal (Palace of Colors). The Bagh Caves were quarried in the 5th -6th century AD, in the very late stages of Buddhism in India, and long after most of the Indian Buddhist Caves had been built, many of them since the 2nd or 1st centuries BCE.[2] The PaintingsThe paintings on the wall and ceilings of the viharas of Bagh, the fragments of which are still visible in Cave 3 and Cave 4 (remnants seen also in Caves 2, 5 and 7), were executed in tempera. These paintings are materialistic rather than spiritualistic.The ground prepared was a reddish-brown gritty and thick mud plaster, laid out on the walls and ceilings. Over the plaster, lime-priming was done, on which these paintings were executed. Some of the most beautiful paintings were on the walls of the portico of Cave 4. To prevent further loss of the values of Indian classical art, most paintings were carefully removed in 1982 and today can be seen in Archaeological Museum of Gwalior.[3] DateAn copperplate inscription of Maharaja Subandhu, recording his donation for the repair of the vihara was found at the site of Cave 2. Though, the date of the Bagh inscription is missing, his Badwani copperplate inscription is dated in the year (Gupta era) 167 (487). So the repair of Cave 2 took place in the late 5th century.[4] See also{{Portal|India}}{{commonscat|Buddhist Caves No.1 to 7 in Bagh}}
Notes1. ^http://dhar.nic.in/visit.htm#tab=1 2. ^{{cite book |last1=Dutt |first1=Sukumar |title=Buddhist Monks and Monasteries of India: Their History and Their Contribution to Indian Culture |date=1988 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=9788120804982 |page=162 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxRHYFd0fB4C&pg=PA162 |language=en}} 3. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.wondermondo.com/Countries/As/India/MadhyaPradesh/Bagh.htm | title = Bagh Caves – rock cut Buddhist temples | accessdate = 23 April 2010 }} 4. ^Verma, Archana (2007). Cultural and Visual Flux at Early Historical Bagh in Central India, Oxford: Archaeopress, {{ISBN|978-1-4073-0151-8}}, p.19 Further reading
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