Standing majestically in the Ellora Cave complex, the Kailasa Temple (Cave 16) is widely recognized as one of the most extraordinary rock-cut structures in world architecture. Hewn entirely from a ...

Mount Kailash remains an unconquered Himalayan peak. This is more a product of its religious significance than the mountaineering challenge posed by its atypical pyramid shape. For Hinduism ...

One such wonder is the Kailasa Temple, a magnificent architectural gem located in Maharashtra’s Ellora Caves. What makes this temple truly astonishing is that it was carved entirely out of a ...

From Ellora in India to Angkor in Cambodia, Deepa Mandlik's Dynasties of Devotion uncovers the splendour of temples that ...

India’s architectural heritage is a testament to human ingenuity, blending art, science, and culture into structures that ...

There are 32 caves in Ellora, numbered according to their age ... I knew that if I started at cave 16, the Kailasa temple, I would never see the rest. So, keeping it as a treat for myself ...

The temple was cut in 'U' shape about 50 metres in the back, and about 2,00,000 tonnes of rock was removed to give shape to it ...

Ellora Caves is the collective name for a ... monuments from the sixth to the tenth centuries A.D. The megalithic Kailasa temple is among the many remarkable buildings there.

Kailasa Temple is the largest of the rock-cut Hindu temples at the Ellora Caves. Located on the banks of the Saraswati River, Rani Ki Vav is a stepwell situated in the town of Gujarat's Patan.

Among the theories on the origin of the monolithic Kailasa Temple in the Ellora caves is one that says aliens chiselled through the hill from the top to create the mammoth temple from a single ...