Saturday, July 18, 2015

Ajanta and Ellora Cave

India known for many  natural beauties and Iconic structure, here the natural beauties talking about Ajganta an Ellora which is situated in Aurangabad part of Maharastra. 

Ajanta and Ellora built millions years ago and it was hided and identified by john smith on 1819.

The interesting part of architecture completely developed by Man, and these caves have been carved using hammer and chisels, and most wondering part of architecture developed using candle light, there is no natural light inside the cave still now. 

The creator of monuments have taken so much care of this beautiful heritage while creating it, example not even created one single hole extra on the hill. 

In 1983, This has been approved by UNESCO as a world heritage.

The Ajanta cave, situated near Waghora, and its located center of Sahayatri hills. 
This has 30 cave, which talks about completely about Buddhism, and teaches about Hinayanam (follow the spiritual education)  and Mahayanam (They believe Buddha as God), This cave completely talk about re-incarnation of Buddha and his life by using Jataka tales, Also will have Buddhist Tales, which will talk about enlightenment of the life.
Architecture 
They are two kind of architecture one is Vihara and Chaitaya.
Vihara talks about horse shaped architecture and used by monks for worship.
Chaitaya, the big hall which used for worship. 


The Ellora cave, situated 30 km distance from Aurangabad, and it contans 34 cave, 
which will talk about Buddha, Hindu and Jain cultures, Buddha will have 12 cave (1-10), 
Hinduism will have 17 (1-7) cave and Jain will have (5-10). One of the most inspiring cave 10, created for lord Siva which reflects kailash. 

The architecture of Ellora, Buddhist cave, it give the impression that ceiling carved with wooden beams. Hindu cave the cave 16, called Kailasha temple and carved using single piece of Rock and it depicts Ramayana and Mahabarata.The effort certainly paid off and took 100 years and it selected world splendid architecture. 
Jain cave depict the philosophies of jainism.