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The ribbed ceiling of a chaitya griha at Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad was made for better acoustics and preventing reverberations.
The Ajanta Caves in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state of India are about 29 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to about 480 or 650 CE. (from Wikipedia0
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Location: Ajanta Caves, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
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