several viharas (monastic halls of residence) and chaitya-grihas (stupa monument halls)

viharas

Jataka stories

red ochre, red lake, cinnabar, minium

. Yellow and orange pigments were yellow ochre, orpiment

and/or realgar and a yellow organic dye

Ochre or Ocher (pronounced /ˈoʊkər/ OH-kər, from the Greek ὠχρός, ōkhrós, pale) is term for
both a golden-yellow or light yellow brown color and for a form of earthpigment which produces
the color. The pigment can also be used to create a reddish tint known as Red ochre. The more
rarely used terms Purple ochre and Brown ochre also exist for variant hues. Because of these
other hues, the color Ochre is sometimes referred to as Yellow ochre.

Kaolin, calcium carbonate, shell white and lead

white were used as white pigments.

with lapis lazuli

organic black
green earth or with a mixture of
orpiment and green earth and/or a pigment of organic origin
with kaolin

gypsum.
vegetable gum.

the chipped rock surface,

as spatial recession are used to accentuate

of five colors (pancha-varna

Hum (Om Mani Padme Hum),,

the "rainbow body," the penultimate transitional state of meditation in which matter begins to be
transformed into pure light

Pebbles : A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of 4 to 64 millimetres based on the Krumbein phi scale
of sedimentology.