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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.
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The Kailasa Temple (Cave 16) at Ellora is a monolithic rock-cut Shiva temple cut downward from the basalt cliff. Secondary accounts associate the main excavation with the Rashtrakuta ruler Krishna I in the eighth century. Albumen photographs of the excavated temple circulated by about 1870; Lala Deen Dayal photographed it again in the 1880s. The earliest photograph stored here is an unnamed albumen view catalogued to the 1880s, with Deen Dayal’s 1888 frame as a second source. KITLV holds a circa-1870 print that was not ingested because of file size.
Primary deity: Shiva as Kailasanatha
Secondary accounts place the principal Rashtrakuta excavation in the eighth century. That date is not checked against an inscription edition here. The stored photographs begin in the 1880s; a circa-1870 KITLV print is known and not ingested.
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