INSV Kaundinya has been built based on a 5th century ship depicted in paintings seen in the Ajanta Caves. The project was initiated through a tripartite agreement signed in July 2023 between the ...

She said several Ajanta caves feature paintings of ships. “We can connect this particular ship with the Purna Avadana Katha. Purna and Bhavila brothers were sandalwood traders from Shurparaka ...

A 1,600-year-old wooden ship, long extinct and no longer in naval ... The design was inspired by a painting from the famed Ajanta Caves. Its is a recreation of a 5th-century Christian Era vessel ...

“It is a vivid testimony of ancient Indian maritime activity.” “The painting of the ship that inspired the design of Kaundinya is from Purna Avadana Katha,” Ms. Palande-Datar said.

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An Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) official, who is also an expert on the world-famous Ajanta caves, said, “The ship depicted in Cave 17 resembles a merchant vessel, indicating the ...

A painting of a “merchant ship” at Ajanta Cave No. 17, indicating sea trade during the fifth century, inspired the Indian Navy’s traditionally built stitched vessel INSV Kaundinya, an expert has said.

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, May 23 (PTI) A painting of a “merchant ship” at Ajanta Cave No. 17, indicating sea trade during the fifth century, inspired the Indian Navy’s traditionally-built stitched ...

In most art museums, those connections are not often drawn out very thoroughly.” The complex’s historic core is East India Marine Hall, a granite edifice built in 1824 by Salem’s ship ...