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Carving Devotion

Ellora Cave 16: the Kailasanatha Temple. 8th century.

 

Conceptualizing an idea that would take 200 years to complete, take 7500 people to finish, with buy-in from 10 generations of stake holders, detailing it to the T (a house of god cannot have a wrong cut), excavating 400000 tonnes of rock, all of these could only have been possible because of the sheer brilliance, love and devotion of those involved.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa_temple,_Ellora

 

Ellora Caves Album:

www.flickr.com/photos/santanu_sen/albums/72157677494590202

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Uploaded on June 8, 2017
Taken on December 29, 2016