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Elephanta Caves
On plan, there are three vast square breaks partitioned off by pilasters each of them bearing a huge picture of a dvarapala. The board on the east has a figure of ardhanarisvara, a type of Siva with the joined energies of male and female; and on the west figures of Siva and Parvati playing chausar is cut. The focal break holds the most renowned and amazing figure of this period known as the Mahesa-murti. It is a giant failure of the three types of Siva, the aghora, turbulent and fearsome; tatpurusha, favorable and thoughtful and vamadeva, mellow satisfying and adorable. The other outstanding boards in the principle give in are Andhakasuravada murti; infinite move of Nataraja; Kalyanasundara murti; Gangadhara murti; Ravana shaking Kailasa and Siva as Lakulisa. A board delineating Saptamatrikas close to the eastern opening is additionally noteworthy.
         The Elephanta Caves (180 56' 20" N; 720 55' 50" E), taluka Uran, region Raigad is situated on island slopes around 11 km north-east of the Apollo Bandar, Mumbai and 7 km from the shore of the terrain, roughly covering a territory of 7 km in perimeter. The island is named after a giant elephant found in the island, which is prominently known as 'Gharapuri'. At present, the statue of elephant is housed at Jijamata Garden in Mumbai. In antiquated period, the place is differently distinguished as Puri which is said in the Aihole engraving of Pulakesin II. It appears to be, changed administrations held their influence over this island, to be specific, the Konkan-Mauryas, Trikutakas, Chalukyas of Badami, Silaharas, Rashtrakutas, Kalyani Chalukyas, Yadavas of Deogiri, Muslim leaders of Ahmedabad and afterward by the Portuguese. The Marathas likewise had this island under their control and from them it go into the control of the British.
       There are seven give in unearthings in the Elephanta bunch and these are datable from around sixth – seventh hundreds of years A.D. Among the give in unearthings, the Cave 1 is the most great which speaks to the developed Brahmanical shake cut engineering. The surrender is additionally celebrated for the impeccable and dynamic figures. On plan it nearly takes after the Dumar Lena (Cave 29) of Ellora. The give in has a fundamental passage on the north with two different openings on the east and west separately and a focal lobby with six lines of pillared sections, six in every column aside from on the western corner, where a hallowed place of lingam is given.