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Article: Cave sanctuaries.
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- Calliope
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- November 1, 2002
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IMAGE BUILDING A TEMPLE FROM THE TOP DOWN OR BY TAKING AWAY STONES RATHER THAN PLACING them one on another. That's just what artists and artisans did in India: They carved sanctuaries into and out of hills and mountains. In fact, they created more than 5,000 extraordinary Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain cave more! than 5,000 extraordinary sanctuaries and monasteries in northern India between 200 B.C. and A.D. 600. The most impressive are at Ajanta and Ellora in western India.
Ajanta has a series al 27 rock-cut Buddhist shrines or chapels, called chaityas, as well as monasteries with cells and meeting halls, where monks gathered during the rainy season. They were all ...