Wednesday, February 20, 2013

There Must Always Be A Temple Of Cool

Kailashnath Temple, also Kailash Temple or Kailasanath Temple is a famous temple dug…in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex located at Ellora, Maharashtra, India. It is a megalith carved out of one single rock. It was built in the 8th century by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I.
The Kailash Temple is notable for its vertical excavation—carvers started at the top of the original rock, and excavated downward.

It is estimated that about 400,000 tons of rocks was scooped out over hundreds of years to construct this monolithic structure.




 

2 comments:

Debra She Who Seeks said...

I hope he paid and/or fed his slave labourers well.

Kal said...

If not there are always more where that came from. Just pay the soldiers a bit more than the slaves and the system will take care of itself.