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Ellora Caves

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Ellora Cave Rd, Ellora, Maharashtra 431102

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About Ellora Caves

It is a monastery-temple cave complex in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. It features monuments of Hindu, Jain and Buddhist culture.

The place is popular due to the largest single monolithic excavation in the world which is the great Kailasa (Cave number 16). The cave is dedicated to Lord Shiva.
It is also called Verul Leni. The place is located 30 kilometers north-northwest of Aurangabad on the Aurangabad-Chalisgaon road.
The Ellora Caves are the collection of 34 caves. The cave 15 is also called Dashavatara which denotes the ten avatars of Lord Vishnu.
According to the archaeologists' rock-cut temples, viharas and mathas were constructed between the 5th century and 10th century while cave temples were made at the time of Chalukya, Kalachuri and Rashtrakuta dynasties in between 6th and 9th centuries.
Cave 10, is also called Chaitya hall which is also called "Carpenter's Cave" is popular among the Buddhist caves.
There are also five Jain caves from Digambara section at the place belonging to the ninth and tenth centuries.

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