The art of Ajanta and Sigiriya which dignifies woman:
"In spite of her obvious reality one feels at Ajanta that Woman is treated not as an individual, but as principle. She is there not female merely, but the incarnation of all the beauty of the world. Hence with all her gaiety, her charm, her insouciance, she never loses her dignity, and nowhere is she belittled or besmirched. Everywhere in this garden of flowers we behold the full-blown rose in its pride and perfume; - nowhere the trampled lily."