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Ellora Caves.
Ellora, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India. It is one of the, largest rock-cut, monastery-temple cave complexes in the world, featuring Hindu, Buddhist and Jain monuments, and artwork, dating from the 600 to 1000 CE period. Cave 16, in particular, features the largest single monolithic rock excavation in the world, the Kailasha temple, a chariot shaped monument dedicated to Lord Shiva. The Kailasha temple excavation, also features sculptures depicting the gods, goddesses and mythologies found in Vaishnavism, Shaktism as well as relief panels, summarizing the two major Hindu Epics. There are over 100 caves at the site, all excavated from the basalt cliffs in the Charanandri Hills, 34 of which are open to public. These consist of 12 Buddhist (caves 1 to 12), 17 Hindu (caves 13 to 29) and 5 Jain (caves 30 to 34) caves, each group representing deities, and mythologies prevalent in the 1st millennium CE, as well as monasteries of each respective religion. They were built close.......

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