Ancient · Buddhist · India

Bagh Caves

बाग की गुफाएँ

Bagh, Dhar, Madhya Pradesh · 22.3227°, 74.8062°

Gautama Buddha (viharas with chaitya chambers)GuptaRock-cut

Sacred since

400 CE

first attestation / structure

Standing structure

5th–7th c. CE; repairs recorded 487 CE

Gupta

History & significance

Nine rock-cut monasteries cut into perpendicular sandstone in Dhar district, of which five survive, laid out on quadrangular plans comparable to Ajanta. A copperplate found in Cave 2 records repairs by Maharaja Subandhu in Gupta year 167 (487 CE); the ASI worked on the monuments for seventeen years, and the tempera paintings were lifted in 1982 and moved to the Gujari Mahal Archaeological Museum at Gwalior.

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