Ellora Caves

The Ellora Caves is the name for a number of caves in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The 34 caves are about 30 kilometres (19 miles) north of Aurangabad. They are some of the most visited cave sites in India. They were made a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.

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Ellora Caves, general map (the rock is depicted as dark green)
Goddess Ganga at the entrance of Cave 21
Vishnu at the Dashavatara Ellora temple
An early 19th-century painting of Cave 15
Caves 11 (above) and 12 are three-storey monasteries cut out of a rock, with Vajrayana iconography inside.^[1]
Plan of Cave No. 5 (Mahawara Cave)
Numerous tantric Buddhist goddesses are carved in Cave 12.
Part of the Carpenter's cave (Buddhist Cave 10)
La grotte jaïne "Indra Sabha" (Ellora, Inde) *La tour pyramidale du sanctuaire monolithique de la grotte 32 de culte jaïn à Ellora La tour pyramidale est composée de gradins ornés de répliques de sanctuaires en bois à toit en berceau, elle reflète la cosmogonie jaïn.

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↑ Geri Hockfield Malandra 1993, pp. 65–82.

[FOOTNOTEGeri_Hockfield_Malandra199365.E2.80.9382-1] Geri Hockfield Malandra 1993, pp. 65–82.

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