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Kailasa Temple, Ellora

Ellora, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra Shaiva rock-cut temple; Ellora Cave 16

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 29, 2026. Next scan Oct 29, 2026.

  1. Historic photograph
    1880s
    Temple in the 1880s

    An albumen photograph catalogued to the 1880s shows the excavated Kailasa Temple. The photographer is not named on this file. A circa-1870 KITLV print is earlier and was not ingested.

  2. Historic photograph
    1888
    Deen Dayal view, 1888

    Lala Deen Dayal photographed the Kailasa Temple in 1888.

  3. Document
    Retrieved 29 September 2026
    Identification note

    The article identifies the rock-cut Shiva temple at Ellora. The nineteenth-century photographs stored here are a separate source.

  4. Change
    1880s photographic record stored
    Rock-cut temple recorded by colonial and Indian photographers

    Commercial and survey photographs of the excavated temple circulate from about 1870 onward. This record stores 1880s frames available as republishable Commons JPEGs.