![]() ![]() That is, a sloping hill has been hewn away externally as well as internally, leaving the temple a solid mass of trap-rock about a sunken, cloistered court measuring 276 by 154 feet. It is a model of a complete temple such as might have been erected on the plain. This cave-temple is not a mere interior chamber cut in the rock. Certainly it is the most splendid of those representing Buddhist, Brahmanical, and Jain work near Ellora, a village of India in the State of Hyderabad and north-east of the city of Bombay. The monolithic Temple of the Kailas has been characterized as the most wonderful and interesting monument of architectural art in India. ![]()
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