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Kailasanatha Temple, Ellora

Kailasanatha temple, also called Kailasa or Kailash, is named after Shiva's mountain paradise in the Himalayas and numbered as Cave 16 at Ellora. Founded in the last quarter of the 8th century by king Krishna I, the temple consists of a single enormous excavation almost 100 feet deep into the rock of the cliff.