Aurangabad Caves

The Aurangabad Caves were dug out of comparatively soft basalt rock during the 6th and 7th century.

[2] The carvings at the Aurangabad Caves are notable for including Hinayana style stupa, Mahayana art work and Vajrayana goddess.

Though its sculptures are comparable to Ajanta and Ellora, the caves are much smaller, more decrepit and less visited.

Though in the 20th century, a few scholars started looking at these cave temples as a missing link between Ajanta and Ellora and also after an exhaustive study, were compelled to describe it as a " Sensitive remaking of life situated in time and space span".

In Cave III the artist seems to have decorated with surprisingly neat and organized designs of fretwork, scrolls, panel of couples, tassels, flowers, geometrical designs, and highest point of perfection and consummation.