Kailasa rock-cut monolithic temple (Ellora)
Templo monolítico excavado de Kailasa (Ellora)
- Date
- c. 756-773 · confidence medium
- Place
- Ellora, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India
- Credited to
- Rashtrakuta dynasty (Krishna I)
- Field
- Tools
What it is
Complete temple carved from a single block of basalt, excavated from the top down by removing some 200,000 t of rock. It is the largest monolithic carved structure in the world and required the whole building to be planned before work began.
What it led to
- pinnacle of Indian rock-cut architecture
- large-scale layout and carving techniques