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Description: | Illustration of sculptures from Cave XXV at Ellora from James Burgess' 'Original Drawings [of] Elura Cave Temples Brahmanical and Jaina, IIII.' The spectacular site of Ellora, in��Maharashtra, is famous for its series of Buddhist,��Hindu��and Jain cave temples excavated into the rocky fa��ade of a cliff of basalt. The works were��carried out��under the patronage of the Kalachuri, the Chalukya and the Rashtrakuta dynasties between the��sixth and the ninth centuries. ?Cave XXV, is known by the names of Kumbarwada and Suresvara, is about 70 yards. The plan shows that behind a hall about 90 feet long, of which the front has fallen away, is a smaller one, 57 feet wide by 23 feet deep and 13 feet 10 inches high, with four square free-standing pillars in front and two in antis.? Illustrated on this folio are of a seated figure on a lotus with male and female flying figures on left and of Surya on right. ?On the roof of the antechamber is the figure of Surya, the sun-god, in his chariot, from which the temple derives the name of Suresvara.? | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Burgess, James (1832-1916) | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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