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Built during 600 to 1000 CE, Ellora Caves lie in the Sahyadri hills in Aurangabad and is a 2-hour drive from the Ajanta Caves. The Ellora Caves comprise Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples and over a 100 caves with only 34 open to the public excavated from the basalt cliffs in the Charanandari hills.
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Built during 600 to 1000 CE, Ellora Caves lie in the Sahyadri hills in Aurangabad and is a 2-hour drive from the Ajanta Caves. The Ellora Caves comprise Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples and over a 100 caves with only 34 open to the public excavated from the basalt cliffs in the Charanandari hills.
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Ellora caves, known as Verul Leni by the local people are situated in Aurangabad-Chalisgaon, 30 km. from Aurangabad. This majestic rock-cut temple caves exhibit artwork and monuments of Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism of the period of 600-1000C.E. The Kailasha Temple of this group of monastery cave temples is an exemplary artwork of monolithic single rock excavation located in cave 16. The temple even displays the mythologies, goddesses and gods of the Hindu epics and the Shaktism and Vaishnavism religions cults. The conglomeration of the Ellora caves has a total of 100 caves, out of which only 34 caves are for the public. This group comprises of 5 Jain caves, 17 Hindu caves and 12 Buddhist caves. These caves reflect the religious sentiments of the people of that era. The Rashtrakuta Dynasty built the Buddhist and the Hindu caves, whereas, the Yadav dynasty built the Jain caves. These caves served manifold purposes like abode for praying, resting place for the pilgrims and monasteries for the monks.