Gigantic Kailasa Temple Emerging From A Mountainside: Engineering Marvel Of India’s Master Builders

A. Sutherland -AncientPages.com – Kailasa temple is the largest of the rock-cut Hindu temples at the Ellora Caves, Maharashtra, India. Carved from a rock cliff face, the Kailasa Temple, named in honor of the sacred mountain-dwelling place of the god  Shiva.

It is considered one of the most remarkable cave temples in the world.

The temples at Ellora were sculptured by Hindus, Jains, and Buddhists, and according to standard textbooks, the earliest ones were carved around 300 BC, but most in the period of the 4th to the 9th centuries AD.

In his book “Ellora,” M. K. Dhavalikar, an author and retired Professor of Archaeology and Director of the Deccan College Post-Graduate Research Institute, Pune, India, writes that “all these shrines and the Kailasa were not excavated at the same time, but belong to different periods.” (“Ellora”, M. K. Dhavalikar, 2003, p. 44).

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