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Begley, W. E. 1966. The Chronology of Mahāyāna Buddhist Architecture and Painting at Ajaṇṭā, = Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Ann Arbor.
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—. 1883a. Report on the Buddhist Cave Temples and Their Inscriptions… Archaeological Survey of Western India. Vol. IV. London: Trubner & Co.
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Chandra, Lokesh. 2005. ‘Ajanta: Aesthesis of Beauty and Beyond.” In: Ajanta: A Multimedia and Virtual Walk-through CD-ROM on the Art, Architecture, and Epigraphy . Compiled/edited by Rajesh Kumar Singh (Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts).
Dahejia, Vidya. 1972. Early Buddhist Rock Temples, A Chronological Study (London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.).
Dhavalikar, M. K. 1984. Late Hinayana Caves of Western India. Pune: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute.
Dhavalikar, M. K. 2005. ‘Ellora,’ in: Monumental Legacy series (New Delhi: Oxford University Press).
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—. 1919. Les représentations de Jātaka dans l’art boudhique, = Memoires concernant l’Asie Orientale, 3, Paris.
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—. 1999. A Guide to the Ajanta Paintings 1: Narrative Wall Paintings (Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal).
—. 1995. ‘A Fortified Palace in an Ancient Painting,’ in: Śri Nāgābhinandanam, Dr. M. S. Nagaraja Rao Festschrift, Bangalore, p. 435–44.
—. 1993. ‘Wandmalereien aus dem alten Indien,’ in: Einsichten, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munchen 1, p. 9–14.
—. 1987. Studies in the Ajanta Paintings, Identifications and Interpretations (Delhi: Ajanta Publications).
—. 1986. ‘Śibi-Sarvaṃdada,’ in: Ṛtam 16–18, Lucknow, 1984–1986, p. 299–308.
—. 1983. ‘Ein Zyklus des Buddhalebens in Ajanta,’ in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 27, Wien, p. 113–148; trans. in: Schlingloff 1987, chapter 2.
—. 1977a. ‘Die Jātaka-Darstellungen in Höhle 16 von Ajanta, in: Beiträge zur Indienforschung, E. Waldschmidt zum 80. Geburststag gewidmet, Berlin, p. 451-478.
—. 1977b. ‘Zwei Malereien in Höhle 1 von Ajanta,’ in: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Supplement, 3, 2 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG), p. 912–917.
—. 1977c. ‘König Prabhāsa und der Elefant,’ in: Indologica Taurinensia 5, Torino, p. 139–152.
—. 1976. ‘Kalyāṇakārin’s Adventures,’ in: Artibus Asiae 38, Ascona, p. 5–28.
—. 1973a. ‘Prince Sudhana and the Kinnarī,’ in: Indologica Taurinensia 1, Torino, p. 155–167.
—. 1973b. ‘A Battle Painting in Ajanta,’ in: Indologen-Tagung 1971, Wiesbaden, p. 196–203.
—. 1972. ‘Jātakamālā-Darstellungen in Ajanta,’ in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Süd- und Ostasiens 16, p. 55–65.
Singh, Rajesh Kumar. 2019. Ajanta Paintings, 2nd. ed., A compilation of 84 abridged narratives (Baroda: Hari Sena Press).
—. 2017. Ajanta Cave No. 1: Documented According to the Corpus by Dieter Schlingloff = Photographic Compendium of Ajanta Narrative Paintings, vol. 1 (Baroda: Hari Sena Press).
—. 2012. An Introduction to the Ajanta Caves: With Examples of Six Caves (Baroda: Hari Sena Press).
—. 2009. Ajanta: History and Development. Vol. 4. Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Year by Year. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
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Yazdani, G. 1955. Ajanta: Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography, vol. IV (London: Oxford University Press).
—. 1946. Ajanta: Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes Based on Photography, vol. III (London: Oxford University Press).
Zin, Monika, and Dieter Schlingloff. 2007. Saṃsāracakra: Das Rad der Wiedergeburten in der Indischen Überlieferung, = Buddhismus-Studien, 6 (Dusseldorf: Eine Veroffentlichung des EKO-Hauses der Japanischen Kulture e. V.).
—. 2003a. Ajanta—Handbuch der Malereine / Handbook of the Paintings 2, Devotionale und Ornamentale Malereien / Ornamental and Devotional Paintings (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz), German. English trans. in press (New Delhi: IGNCA).
—. 2003b. A Guide to the Ajanta Paintings 2—Devotional and Ornamental Paintings, I-II (Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal).
—. 2000. ‘Two Nāga-stories in the Oldest Paintings in Ajanta IX,’ in: South Asian Archaeology 1997, Roma, p. 1171–1199.