Most caves leave the visitor with their mouths open, but which arouses interest because of its uniqueness is the number 16, Kailasa, which is not a cave, but a temple, the world's largest excavated stone monolith . Kailasa immediately reminds the churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia, which is certainly above and, perhaps, inspiration.
Digging a trench in the basalt, the craftsmen were able to isolate a stone monolith of 50 feet long by 33 wide and 30 tall. For a century did not stop chopping block of basalt, starting at the top and emptied following the sides, to complete a temple that well deserves to be World Heritage Site itself, although it is already set as part of Ellora.
As such a task must have seemed little stone cutters, in my free time is devoted to open new galleries and balconies on the walls of the mountain, where they can now enjoy the best views of the temple. Such is the case of the magnificent Hall Lankesvara dug into the trench wall which faces the northern facade of Kailasa, and from the balconies you can enjoy a superb view of the scenes of the Mahabharata that adorn the temple wall.
Digging a trench in the basalt, the craftsmen were able to isolate a stone monolith of 50 feet long by 33 wide and 30 tall. For a century did not stop chopping block of basalt, starting at the top and emptied following the sides, to complete a temple that well deserves to be World Heritage Site itself, although it is already set as part of Ellora.
As such a task must have seemed little stone cutters, in my free time is devoted to open new galleries and balconies on the walls of the mountain, where they can now enjoy the best views of the temple. Such is the case of the magnificent Hall Lankesvara dug into the trench wall which faces the northern facade of Kailasa, and from the balconies you can enjoy a superb view of the scenes of the Mahabharata that adorn the temple wall.
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