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Karma sutra text3/4/2024 ![]() ![]() It was built by Krishna I., Rashtrakuta, King of Malkhed in the incredibly short period of twenty-three years, between 760 and 783 A. Though Moslem zealots have striven to destroy the carved figures, and time and earthquakes have weathered and broken away parts here and there, this great temple is still one of the most perfect examples of Dravidian architecture. That is, a sloping hill has been hewn away externally as well as internally, leaving the temple a solid mass of trap-rock about a sunken, cloistered court measuring 276 by 154 feet. It is a model of a complete temple such as might have been erected on the plain. This cave-temple is not a mere interior chamber cut in the rock. Certainly it is the most splendid of those representing Buddhist, Brahmanical, and Jain work near Ellora, a village of India in the State of Hyderabad and north-east of the city of Bombay. The monolithic Temple of the Kailas has been characterized as the most wonderful and interesting monument of architectural art in India.
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