| Vehicle type Dezire |
A few paintings which survive on the walls of Caves 9 and 10 go
back to the 2nd century BC-AD. The second group of the paintings
started in about the fifth century AD and continued for the next
two centuries as, noticeable in later caves. The themes are
intensely religious in tone and centre round Buddha,
Bodhisattvas, incidents from the life of Buddha and the Jatakas.
The paintings are executed on a ground of mud-plaster in the
tempera technique.