Located in the Western Ghats, the rock-cut temples of Karla, Bhaja and Bedse are among the earliest Buddhist cave temples in India.
Their construction shortly follows the fragmentation of the Mauryan Empire and of the Indo-Greek kingdoms that arose from Alexander’s conquests, in the 2nd Century BCE.
Their architecture and sculptural decoration reflects a mix of Hindu, Persian, and Hellenistic motifs, peaking in the 1st Century CE with the construction of the Great Chaitya of the Karla Caves, the largest in all of India.
Carved out of the solid basalt of the Deccan plateau, they are some of the earliest surviving monumental structures in all of India. And yet, their fantastic ornamentation, representing multi-storied, fairy-tale palaces with projecting arches and balconies, suggests the existence of a much earlier architectural tradition in either wood or stone of which there is no trace in the archaeological record.
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9 окт 2024
