 Kailash Temple is situated at Ellora and is considered that it had been built by excavating approx. 200,000 tones of rock and it is possible the world's largest monolithic construction.
Representing Shiva's Himalayan home, the temple is exquisitely sculpted and is considered as one of the most astonishing 'buildings' inside the background of architecture.
A crowning glory from the art, Kailash temple at Ellora is certainly exclusive. Instead of carving down in to the encounter of the cliff and creating underground halls which had been the follow, the sculptors/architects set aside all convention and developed a full temple, identical in each and every detail to a structural, 'built-up' instance, by carving vertically down into the residing rock.
Style & Construction
The scheme in the Kailash temple is basically divided into four main parts: the body from the temple itself, the entrance gateway, an intermediate nandi shrine and the cloisters surrounding the courtyard.
Much in the imposing character of the main shrine is due to its substantial plinth, which on first examination seems to be a floor by itself.
Above and below this, the sub-structure is heavily molded, while the central space is occupied by a frieze of elephants and lions.
The Kailash temple is not only the single largest work of art executed in India, but as an example of rock-cut architecture it stands unrivaled. One gradually becomes aware with the stupendous labor that it involved (over a hundred years), and finally, the sculpture that adorns it.
Standing inside of its walls, one cannot help but be aware of the spiritual energy that went into its creation - a jewel hewn out in the rock itself.
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