The Kailasa Temple, the largest of the 34 Ellora Caves in Maharashtra, India, has stunning vertical rock-cut architecture carved from a single rock. The top-down construction technique is particularly hard to fathom as the planning and execution seem almost impossible. It has rock-cut obelisks, chambers, Shiva Lingams, Buddhist and Jain shrines and no one know where the estimated 400,000 tons of basalt disappeared to. In tradition a special rock-disintegrating machine called a Brahmastra has been put forward as to how it was done, a powerful celestial weapon, often described as the “Astra of Brahma”, capable of causing complete annihilation of rock. Kailasa Temple could have been the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ and is still shrouded in mystery as the dating is generally attributed to the eighth century Rashtrakuta King Krishna I (756 – 773 AD) with some elements completed later, but this is not confirmed and could be part of a much earlier legacy.

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