Visiting Place: Ellora Caves.
About Ellora Caves: The Ellora Caves
locally called as ‘Verul Leni’ is situated on the Aurangabad from 30 km. It was
founding in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta dynasty king Krishna I as verify
in Kannada inscriptions. The Ellora Cave represents one of the largest
rock-carved monastic-temple structures in the total globe. This is 34 temples
and monasteries famous collectively as the Ellora Caves.
Ellora is also world eminent for the largest
one colossal digging in the earth, the immense Kailasa sixteenth cave and
outstanding example of Dravidian structural design on explanation of its
outstanding quantity, complicated workmanship, architectural comfortable, and
sculptural adornment of rock-carved design. The visit to these caves is enjoyed
maximum during monsoon, when every stream is filled with rainwater, and the
entire environ is lush green. The monsoon is not only a season of rains in this
part, the local visitors are attracted to visit these ideal locations to have a
glimpse of the mother nature in full bloom.
The
Caves make longer over more than two km, were dug alongside in the wall of a
towering basalt rock face in the multipart placed at Ellora. The temple was specially made and completed
between 757-783 CE. It is planned to recall Mount Kailasa, the temple of Lord
Shiva.For
the period between 6th to 9th built Ellora for Hindu, Buddhist and Jain cave temples
and the ruling of the Kalachuri, Chalukya and Rashtrakuta dynasties. This
place 34 caves are situated twelve Buddhist caves (500-750 AD), seventeen Hindu
caves (600-870 AD) and five Jain caves (800-1000 AD). The first ten caves are called as Viswakarma
caves and apart from tenth cave are monasteries used for education, meditation,
communal rituals, eating and sleeping.
Cave
one is a plain vihara with eight small monastic cells are very little
sculpture. It may have served as a granary for the larger halls. Cave
two is very attractive huge middle hall supported by twelve big cube pillars is
lined with sculptures of seated Buddhas. Caves three and four have a comparable
design as Cave two. Cave five is named the Maharwada Cave because it was used
by local Mahartribes people as a shelter during the monsoon.Cave
sixth was carved in Mahamaya considerably; Mahamayuri has a very parallel Hindu
goddess Saraswati. The
wonderful Cave ten known as the Carpenter's Cave, because of its imitation in stone
of wooden beams on the ceiling. At the far end, a seated Buddha is enthroned in
front of a large stone sthoopa.
Hindu Caves from 14 to 29, and are possibly
the finest examples of Hindu rock cared caves in India. These caves were carved
at a time when Hinduism received royal support in the area, the great epics the
Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Jain Caves:The sculpture was cast in the 15th cave,
Kailasa
temple in the sixteenth world's largest monolith temple. 150 years of its
constructionand it is engaged in the construction of the approximately seven
thousand workers. The temple is located in an area of sixty thousand square
feet. The
21 cave is Rameshwar cave. The cave is
22 Nila kanta cave. In this cave are the parents of seven deities, the gods and
the statue of the river to the 21 and 22 caves marriage of Shiva and Parvati. 25th cave is seven horses of the sun in the cave
built and as well as 29th in the cave where the sculpture will look great on
the mountain lifting Ravana. There
are five Jain Caves, from 30 to 34. Here the Gomateswara statue is marvelous.
These are 9th to 11th AD middle carved
to the caves.these sculpture birth of the story Mahavir. Though the Jain caves
are not as large as the Buddhist or Hindu caves, they are no less detailed
How To Reach Ellora Caves:
By
Road: Ellora Caves are connected to a network of excellent roadways with
Aurangabad from 104 km.
By Train: The nearest railway station is
Jalgaon 59 km from Ajanta. Two trains Tapovan Express and Devgiri Express
depart daily from Mumbai to Aurangabad.
By
Air: Aurangabad, which is about 99 km from Ajanta and 30 km from Ellora, can be
reached directly from Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur and Udaipur airports.
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