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The fictional Marabar Caves in the novel and later film, A Passage to India are based on the Barabar Caves. (Coachtripfan (talk) 11:40, 13 October 2013 (UTC))[reply]
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Import
Monumental Achaemenid polish, 5th century BCE.This remarkable and large-scale polishing technique, and in many ways without parallel, seems nevertheless to have been derived from polishing techniques in Achaemenid statuary, the stone-working techniques having spread in India after the destruction of the empire by Alexander the Great in 330 BC and the displacement of Persian and Perso-Greek artists and technicians [16]. This know-how seems to have disappeared again after the Maurya period, none of the later caves such as the Ajanta caves having this characteristic of polished surfaces [16][17].
The very act of digging artificial caves in the rock, of which the Barabar caves represent the oldest case in India, was probably inspired by the caves dug in the rock of the Achaemenids, as is the case in Naqsh-e Rostam.[18]. It seems, however, that in India there had been an ancient tradition of ascetics using caves.[19].
Local development
Polished stone ax, India, 2800-1500 BCE.According to Gupta, the polishing of rocks could have a local origin, citing the existence of polishing technologies of the neolithic, as visible in various stone tools such as axes. There is, however, no trace of evolution from these neolitical tools to polished stone architecture, and the Barabar caves are essentially a sudden technological break with no local history, suggesting the import of these techniques from another culture. Nor are there any known examples of stone architecture in India before the Maurya period. [20]. According to Gupta, the Son Bhandar Caves could be such an intermediate step, although relatively unique, and subject to questioning its chronology, since it is generally dated to the 2nd-4th centuries of our era
Hi, We have noticed that you deleted Whole tourism section . We as team are working on project to promote tourism to barabar & nagarjuni caves. So we have also done field visit and currently we are working on tourism aspect with every thing and n consideration . So could you please elaborate why you deleted ? Abhisal2408 (Diskussion) 12:37, 24. Nov. 2021 (CET)
Just a question. Listening to a discussion on these caves, and some discussion of the precision of the geometry. Variously either fraction of a mm, or fraction of a degree. Not finding any source that approaches these types of claims. 23.235.75.234 (talk) 14:47, 20 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Apparently, this section was unclear - during a fringe-historical-theories discussion on Reddit, multiple people have been reading it as saying that the Barabar Caves were polished in Neolithic times with stone axes, and understandably laughing like drains. Maybe the edit has clarified it a bit! Wombat140 (talk) 11:39, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
User:Rishikaditi It looks like, you've made a lot of edits (claiming that the caves were made during the Sunga dynasty rather than the Maurya dynasty, for instance) without citing any references for them (in fact, you left the original references for it being the Mauryas in place!), and Wikipedia's rules do require information to be supported by references. Do you have any references supporting the edits you've made? If so, what are they? Possibly, it'll be clearer how this is supposed to be done if you read https://www.search.com.vn/wiki/en/Wikipedia:Verifiability .
It seems like, what you said may be true for all I know (I hesitate to contradict an Indian about an article about India!), but judging by your contributions history you haven't quite got the hang of how Wikipedia works. Wombat140 (talk) 14:25, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]