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| The lighting was much better in this cave, perhaps because they were not so concerned with preserving the paintings Above is a picture of me just outside the Buddha shrine. |
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| Then we headed back along another route through the gorge. The next day we drove to caves which closer to Aurangabad, Ellora. They are more recent with the first caves dating from about 500AD but continuing later with Hindu and later Jain shrines. Our guide had the bus take to the last cave so that we could see it without the crowds. It was a Jain shrine. |
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| The easiest way to tell a Jain shrine from a Buddhist shrine is that Jain is often shown in half lotus position (not full lotus) and never has any clothes (as shown below) whereas the Buddha will commonly be depicted in full lotus and often has some clothes. Very orthodox Jains never wear clothes and only eat food that has naturally fallen from the plant, not been harvested as that is too viloent an act. Needless to say there are not many people who follow Jain conventions that strictly. |
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