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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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village of See also:India in the native See also:state of See also:Hyderabad, near the See also:city of See also:Daulatabad, famous for its See also:rock temples, which divided into three distinct See also:series, the Buddhist, the Brahmanical and the Jain, and are arranged almost chronologically. The most splendid of the whole series is the See also:Kailas, a perfect See also:Dravidian See also:temple, See also:complete in all its parts, characterized by See also:Fergusson as one of the most wonderful and interesting monuments of architectural See also:art in India. It is not a See also:mere interior chamber cut in the rock, but is a See also:model of a complete temple such as might have been erected on the See also:plain. In other words, the rock has been cut away externally as well as internally. First the See also:great sunken See also:court measuring 276 ft. by 154 ft. was hewn out of the solid See also:trap-rock of the hillside, leaving the rock See also:mass of the temple wholly detached in a cloistered court like a See also:colossal See also:boulder, See also:save that a rock See also:bridge once connected the upper See also:storey of the temple with the upper See also:row of galleried See also:chambers surrounding three sides of the court. Colossal elephants and obelisks stand on either See also:side of the open mandapam, or See also:pavilion, containing the sacred See also:bull; and beyond rises the monolithic Dravidian temple to See also:Siva, 90 ft. in height, hollowed into See also:vestibule, chamber and See also:image-cells, all lavishly carved. See also:Time and earthquakes have weathered and broken away bits of the great See also:monument, and Moslem zealots strove to destroy the carved figures, but these defects are hardly noticed. The temple was built by See also:Krishna I., See also:Rashtrakuta, See also:king of Malkhed in 760-783.

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