Awesome Ajanta
Buddhist monks lived austerely but painted brilliantly at Ajanta caves in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, and 2,000 years ago. This makes Ajanta the oldest monument in India. The horseshoe Shaped hillside caves depict the Jataka fables on their walls in friezes whose colors still glow luminescent after all these years.
Enchanting Ellora
Built by the Rashtrakuta dynasty a thousand years back, the Kailash temple at Ellora in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, took 100 years to complete! Excavated out of a single hill without any mechanical aid, the natural stone block was left for the temple. Details were added to 20,000 tonens of painstakingly chiseled out rock.
World’s longest corridor
A thousand-pillared carved passageway stretching 197 metres east-west and 133 metres north-south, the breathtaking corridor of the Rameshwaram temple complex in Tamilnadu is the longest in the world. Yet, it does not present a dark interior, allowing light to filter through well-spaced openings in the roof.
Tallest monolith
At 56 feet up to sky at Sravanbelgala in Karnataka the statue of the Jain sage gomateshwara, or Bahubali, is the tallest monolithic statue in the world, dwarf ling visitors at its feet. Carved out of a single granite boulder a thousand years ago, the massive monument has withstood the ravages of time without losing any of its majesty.
