Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Ellora cave

'Absolutely stunning Ellora cave(cave no. 30) carved out of single rock, Maharashtra
Dated: ~8th century CE
Kailasa temple, Ellora
The greatest wonder of rock-cut in the world. One of the wonders of the world on account of their huge dimensions and elaborate carvings. The grandest of them, the Hindu temple Kailasa (Shiva’s paradise) at Ellora, in south-central India , ingeniously used the mountain itself to make the effigy of a divine mountain.
Ellora, where an entire mountain has literally been scooped out over several years by patient devoted artists and architectural geniuses, who envisioned and "extracted" Lord Shiva's Mount Kailasha temple inside that enormous rock dome. Ellora's Kailasantha cave temple remains one of the true "wonders" of the world of art and a unique monument to Hindu devotion. Captain Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-1876) author, says: "the carving on some of the pillars, and of the lintels and architraves of the doors, is quite beyond description. No chased work in silver or gold could possibly be finer. But what tools this very hard, tough stone could have done wrought and polished as it is, is not at all intelligible at the present day."
Photo Credit: Venerebilis Opus'Absolutely stunning Ellora cave(cave no. 30) carved out of single rock, Maharashtra
Dated: ~8th century CE
Kailasa temple, Ellora
The greatest wonder of rock-cu...t in the world. One of the wonders of the world on account of their huge dimensions and elaborate carvings. The grandest of them, the Hindu temple Kailasa (Shiva’s paradise) at Ellora, in south-central India , ingeniously used the mountain itself to make the effigy of a divine mountain.
Ellora, where an entire mountain has literally been scooped out over several years by patient devoted artists and architectural geniuses, who envisioned and "extracted" Lord Shiva's Mount Kailasha temple inside that enormous rock dome. Ellora's Kailasantha cave temple remains one of the true "wonders" of the world of art and a unique monument to Hindu devotion. Captain Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-1876) author, says: "the carving on some of the pillars, and of the lintels and architraves of the doors, is quite beyond description. No chased work in silver or gold could possibly be finer. But what tools this very hard, tough stone could have done wrought and polished as it is, is not at all intelligible at the present day."
Photo Credit: Venerebilis Opus

 

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