Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Apr 19 (PTI) Bhutanese Home Minister Lyonpo Tshering visited the renowned Ajanta Caves complex in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district and described the experience as ‘awesome’ in the feedback book, officials said on Sunday.
Tshering, who visited the site on Saturday, also World Heritage Day, spent considerable time admiring the Padmapani Bodhisattva painting, one of the most iconic and celebrated masterpieces of ancient Indian art, they added.
“He reached the Ajanta Caves complex at 11am. He visited caves 1,2,5, 9,10,12, 17 and 26. The minister spent the longest time looking at the Padmapani painting in cave number 1,” his guide Rahul Nikam told PTI.
Archaeological Survey of India official Manoj Pawar said the Bhutanese dignitary wrote “awesome” in the feedback book to describe his visit.
“The visit to the UNESCO heritage site was awesome with co-operative staff who guided us the whole time,” Tshering wrote in the book maintained by the ASI. PTI AW BNM
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