Cave 6 is an ornate vihara with wonderful images of Tara, consort of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, and of Mahamayuri, the Buddhist goddess of learning, looking remarkably similar to Saraswati, her Hindu equivalent.
Cave 6
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