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Assess Ellora as a unique art centre of the different cultural streams.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas

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What makes Ellora exceptional is not any single monument but the fact that one basaltic scarp in the Deccan carries, side by side and in rough chronological sequence, the rock-cut architecture of three different faiths — Buddhism, Brahmanical Hinduism and Jainism — executed across roughly four centuries under at least three ruling houses. No comparable…

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  • The Buddhist Group (c. mid-6th to late 7th century CE)
  • The Brahmanical Group and the Kailasa Temple (c. late 7th to 9th century CE)
  • The Jain Group (c. 9th to 11th century CE)
  • Ellora's Unique Significance
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