File:Sketch of sculptures and panel artworks at Kailash, Ellora Hindu cave temples.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionSketch of sculptures and panel artworks at Kailash, Ellora Hindu cave temples.jpg |
English: Illustration of Kailasa stambha and other Hindu artworks from the Kailashnath Temple, Kailash Temple at Ellora Caves.
From the source, The spectacular site of Ellora, in Maharashtra, is famous for its series of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain cave temples excavated into the rocky facade of a cliff of basalt. The works were done under the patronage of the Kalachuri, the Chalukya and the Rashtrakuta dynasties between the 6th and the 9th centuries. The Kailasha nath temple is the most noted of all the splendours of Ellora, a free-standing temple rather than a cave, entirely sculpted out of a great mass of basalt. Commissioned by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I in the mid-eighth century, it symbolises Mount Kailasa, the sacred abode of Shiva. A tall screen marks the entrance, and river goddesses mark the route to the sections of the two-storey temple (a Nandi shrine, a mandapa, the main sanctuary, and the Lankeshvara shrine). The principal shrine is topped by a pyramidal tower (shikara). Superb sculptural friezes in the temple tell tales from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, and of Shiva. |
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Source | http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/largeimage67505.html |
Author | Burgess (1876) |
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