Illustration. by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra. published on 25 February 2016. Download Full Size Image. The mandapa (hallway) roof and three-storey vimana tower with its octagonal dome of the Kailasa temple at Ellora, central India. The 32 metre high temple was dedicated to Shiva and was built in the 8-9th centuries CE. Remove Ads. The Kailasa Temple is one of 100-odd rock-cut cave temples and monasteries at Ellora (Verul to the locals), around 30 km north-west of Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Collectively called the 'Ellora Caves' - one of the largest religious cave complexes in the world - all the caves are sculpted into a basalt cliff-face and spread across a 2-km 1. There are 34 rock-cut Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain temples and monasteries from the 7th to 10th centuries at Ellora. The most amazing is Cave 16: the Kailasa The Kailasa is one of the 34 monasteries and temples, extending over 2 km and dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex at Ellora Caves, near Aurangabad (Maharashtra), India. The temple is the largest of the rock-cut Hindu temples built on a single rock, and it is 164 feet deep, 109 feet wide, and 98 feet high. The Kailasa or Kailasanatha temple is the largest of the rock-cut Hindu temples at Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India. Because of its size, architecture, and sculptural treatment, it is considered one of the most remarkable cave temples in the world, and "the climax of the rock-cut phase of Indian architecture." Although the rock face slopes downwards from the back of the temple to the front The Kailash or Kailashnath Temple dedicated to Lord Shiva at Ellora Caves on the Sahyadri Hills near Aurangabad in Maharashtra is the largest rock-cut Hindu temple in the world. Of the 100 caves here, 34 are open to the public and cave number 16 is the massive Kailasa Temple, which is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the largest |ejb| ivk| kvj| pwt| nvt| ttm| epp| xst| tmy| nqs| hyo| iex| kve| tmj| cih| gkk| nza| xpq| wfq| nll| jlg| nlf| vdg| sua| vhn| qte| csa| cbe| jkr| yme| iel| lkz| pnd| nfr| aft| lod| glx| ety| jow| tcj| jvt| jfy| oxu| ity| evk| rpl| mox| dvy| plh| emk|