Rock-cut Buddhist temple cave: Karla

Carved Straight from the Bedrock: The Great Chaitya Cave of India

(Ancient Architects) Oct. 7, 2025: There are a number of famous examples of enigmatic rock-cut architecture in the world. India is one place in particular that is famous for its manmade (deva-made) caves.

There are the famous Buddhist Ellora Caves that date back to 600-1000 AD, which includes the breathtaking and seemingly impossible Kailasa Temple, the Ajanta caves, which are even older, but there are also the lesser-known Karla Caves.

They are not all as elaborate as the others, but it is a site that should certainly be on everyone's radar. The Karla Caves are located near Lonavala, Maharashtra, a complex of amazing ancient Buddhist Indian temples carved directly from bedrock, dating back from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD.

Maharashtra has many larger examples of artificial (human-made) cave networks, but Cave 8 at Karla, known as The Grand Chaitya Cave, is the largest and most completely preserved chaitya hall of the period with beautiful, ornate architecture, featuring many examples of fine sculpture. Watch this video to find out more about this human wonder of the world.

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Buddhism's Karla Caves, India

Magnificent rock-cut hollow hall with stupa

The Karla Caves (also Karli Caves, Karle Caves, Karla Cells) are a complex of ancient Buddhist Indian rock-cut caves at Karli near Lonavala, Maharashtra State.

The site is 10.9 kms from Lonavala. Others in the area include Bhaja Caves, Patan Buddhist Cave, Bedse Caves, and Nasik Caves.

The shrines were developed over the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE. The oldest of the cave shrines is believed to date back to 160 BCE, having arisen near a major ancient trade route, running eastward from the Arabian Sea into the Deccan.

The group at Karla is one of the older and smaller of the many rock-cut Buddhist sites in Maharashtra, India.

It is one of the best-known because of the famous "Grand Chaitya" (Cave 8), the largest and most completely preserved chaitya hall of the period, containing unusual quantities of fine sculpture on a large scale [1].

Cross section of Grand Hall with stupa (Karla)

Many traders, Western Satraps of Saka [aka Shakyian, Scythian] origin and Satavahana rulers made grants for construction and support of these caves.

Karla's location in Maharashtra places it in a region that marks the division between North India and South India [2].

Buddhists, having become identified with commerce and manufacturing through their early association with traders, tended to locate their monastic establishments in natural geographic formations close to major trade routes so as to provide lodging houses for travelling traders [3].

Today, the cave complex is a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India [4]. More

Deeper meaning of Winter Solstice

Shaman Santa is nice to a deaf Sami girl named "Sami"

Scandinavian shroom shamans were beloved figures.

The Deeper, Spiritual Meaning of the Winter Solstice | Through Ancient History

(Sakro Sawel) This is a stunning visual journey through the ancient multicultural sites, traditions, and myths of the winter solstice to discover their deeper spiritual meaning and their relevance today.

Did you know that winter solstice was the most celebrated religious occasion in ancient history and still is even today?

This video explores the celebration of the sun and the winter solstice throughout history. Watch the winter solstice sun rise along the grand avenue of Karnak in Egypt, the largest temple complex in the world.

CONTENTS

• 00:00 – Introduction
• 01:45 – What is the Winter Solstice?
• 02:35 – Spirituality in Nature
• 03:31 – Journey of the Sun God
• 04:37 – Winter Solstice Celebrations
• 07:38 – Winter Solstice Alignments
• 10:07 – Karnak Temple Alignment
• 12:58 – The Principles of Creation
• 15:19 – Luxor Temple Symbolism
• 16:09 – Glastonbury Tor Meaning
• 17:33 – Newgrange Symbolism
• 18:53 – Great Pyramids Solstice Alignment
• 19:28 – Tiwanaku Symbolism
• 20:42 – The Dark Half of Duality
• 21:31 – Birth of the Hero Savior
• 22:35 – Jesus and the Hidden Meaning of Christmas
• 26:01 – Conclusion
• 27:31 – Where to Learn More
• 27:57 – Image and Video Credits

View a beam of solstice sunlight enter the hidden inner chamber of the giant megalithic mound site of Newgrange in Ireland.

Travel through these and tens of other ancient sites from around the world, some Buddhist, others American, while learning about the ancient symbolic meaning they had to their builders.

We also look at the deeper spiritual meaning of Xmas, the world’s biggest celebration held around the winter solstice as Christ-mass.

The winter solstice was the largest religious occasion in ancient times and remains so. Many ancient cultures throughout the world venerated the sun at the winter solstice. Millions still honor it according to their ancient traditions, and billions celebrate Christmas at the time of winter solstice, although its deeper significance has largely been lost.

Why is the winter solstice such an important event and what is its spiritual meaning? We explain how winter solstice was an important part of an ancient religion of the sun that spread to different parts of the world in prehistory.

NOTE ABOUT ATTRIBUTING THIS WORK: The information in this video is the culmination of years of work and research. It contains Sakro Sawell's unique interpretations of ancient sites and traditions. If you like it and want to share it, do not plagiarize it! Please share the video with due credit as the source. This video is part of a series about the spiritual meaning of the solstices and equinoxes. Watch the other videos in this series here:

• Winter solstice
• Spring equinox
• Summer solstice
• Autumn equinox

Website: sakrosawel.com. Book (co-authored by husband and wife) discusses the spiritual meaning of the winter solstice and ancient sites aligned to it in detail, as well as how to celebrate it: Ancient Solstice sakrosawel.com/ancient-solstice.

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• Sakro Sawel, Dec. 17, 2023, YouTube, sakrosawel.com; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Barabar Buddhist Caves archeological site

Barabar: The Archeological Site of the Future, narrated by Jahannah James

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Graham Hancock: Buddhist cave temple

We agree. Humans did not build this. The devas ("shining ones," extraterrestrial visitors from two planes of existence up, from a world known as the World of the Thirty-Three or Tavatimsa deva loka) came down and used their space technology with human help and alien tools.

Scientists discover ancient Buddhist structure carved inside of a mountain that defies all logic

Ellora Caves Buddhist temple complex, India, Kailasanatha Temple 2 (Wiki)

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Map of the many Ellora Caves

(LifesBiggestQuestions) May 14, 2024: Prepare to be amazed. Scientists have stumbled upon an ancient Buddhist structure carved [laser cut] directly into a rock mountain that defies all logical explanation.

This mind-blowing discovery challenges our understanding of history and engineering. Let's delve into the mysteries surrounding this incredible Buddhist archeological site known as the Kailasa Temple in the Ellora Cave complex, exploring its intricate carvings, baffling architecture, and the theories about who built it and why.

• Ellora Caves, Kailasanatha Buddhist Temple, a wonder of Ancient India (Wondermondo)

Kailasanatha Temple, Ellora Cave complex, Maharashtra, India (Y. Shishido/wiki)

Rock cut Buddhist site, Kailasanatha Temple (Kunal Mukherjee/flickr.com/CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Could this be evidence of a lost civilization [or extraterrestrial workmanship with advanced technology and rock-cutting or melting abilities]? Join LBQ as we unravel this extraordinary enigma.

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• Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Incredible ancient Buddhist architecture

MSN.com; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Sanchi Buddhist stupa or reliquary dome temple complex, detailed below at Number 20.

Inside a hollow stupa, with its domed roof and various meditation chambers

Interior view of rock-hewn Buddhist temple

Sometimes a mainstream media story catches the eye, something like Stonehenge and more incredible ancient Buddhist feats of engineering (msn.com). A few clicks later, one realizes it's bait. There's little weight to it. It's fancy clickbait Bill Gates needs to build his fortune, maybe make his own island now that Melinda is gone. What the title clicked on didn't say was "Buddhist" feats but it was a Buddhist temple that lured the eye. Then clicking through one can't help but notice that most of the wonders are Buddhist creations. Even the things Buddhists didn't build (by lots of chiseling or by some advanced technology provided by devas from space) they seem to have influenced.

• The most astounding archaeological discoveries in history (starsinsider.com)

These stylized Buddhist burial mound reliquaries (stupas) are found all over Asia.

1. Sanchi, India (sanchi.org)
2. Moai, Easter Island
3. Sacsayhuaman, Peru
4. Machu Picchu, Peru
5. Mesa Verde (Native American), Arizona, USA



How did ancient Afghan Buddhist create this?

6. Underground churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia [reminiscent of a famous rock-hewn Afghan Buddhist stupa or sacred reliquary]
7. Tikal, Guatemala [from an advanced jungle empire, reminiscent of the massive Buddhist cities in Cambodia like Angkor and Seim Reap, said to have been named after Gautama Buddha, as detailed in the amazing How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America by American Rick Fields (shambhala.com), the mala being a reference to meditation beads]

8. 

   Volcanoes in the distance, Buddhas in bells

   Borobudur, Java, Indonesia [a pyramidal Buddhist temple, the largest excavated Buddhist temple in the world (with larger one yet to be excavated in Afghanistan or ancient Gandhara, where the Buddha was born and raised) once hidden under mud and layers of volcanic ash and jungle vegetation until 1835, because the local Muslims could not figure out how it was built and could not match it so they buried it in mud and forgot about it until a British surveyor realized no hill should be standing where it was; he dug and found Borobudur, yet we still do not know much about its construction or original purpose, with historians left to compare the thousands of carved bas reliefs depicting Buddhist and Hindu scenes for clues, coming to the conclusion that it must have taken 75 years to build with andesite (grey volcanic rocks) taken from adjacent quarries which were cut, transported, and laid without mortar.
9. Leshan Giant Buddha, China [built into the side of a mountain alongside a massive river with steps and means to enter like the Statue of Liberty]

10. 

    What tools, lasers, and skill could build this?

    Ellora Buddhist Caves, India [a sacred site home to Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain temples carved from volcanic basalt stone, the archeological site is comprised of decorated caves like the grand Kailasa Temple which, at 104 feet (32m) high, the largest rock-cut monument in the world, built into the sloping basalt hill and featuring a three-story town with an octagonal stupa dome of mindboggling architectural detail: beams, bases, capitals, brackets, pilasters and carved bas reliefs in Aurangabad, India]
11. 
    Shibam, Yemen [the first skyscraper multistory buildings -- resulting in Manhattan or Chicago-style skyline in the desert -- in the modern world, reminiscent of Tibetan Buddhism's Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet/China, a pueblo building built up with mud bricks into a massive mansion, cubicle by cubicle]

12. 

    Mexico also has world's largest pyramid: Cholula

    Teotihuacan, Mexico City, Mexico [a civilization that came into contact with Buddhism through Afghan and Chinese Buddhist missionaries as detailed in the American Edward P. Vining's Inglorious Columbus: Evidence that Hwui Shan and a party of Buddhist monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, A.D., revolutionizing Mexican and Mesoamerican culture, which included California, New Mexico, and the West Coast of what is now the U.S. and Mexico, which in ancient times was called Fu Sang], resting northeast of Mexico City, the archeological site of Teotihuacan, with some of the largest pyramid-like structures outside of Egypt that once formed a 22 mile-wide (35km) metropolis with a grid-like structure that aligned with key geographic, geodetic, and celestial points, including the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon
13. Al-Khazneh, Petra, Jordan [carved right into the side of a soft sandstone cliff, "The Treasury" is a rock-hewn stone monument as impressive as the characteristically Buddhist rock-hewn structures of Asia, which are carved into much more durable stone, particularly in Western China and Afghanistan]
14. Colosseum, Rome, Italy

15. 

    It rises up out of the jungle, a carved fortress

    Sigiriya, Buddhist Sri Lanka ["Lion Rock," an ancient fortress carved into a 656-feet (200m) vertical rock face near Dambulla, Ceylon, during the island's long history, when it served as a royal palace and Buddhist monastery, made up of a citadel, upper palace, lake (reservoir), gardens, fresco mirror wall, and carved lion-shaped gateway, with remarkable engineering at play at the base with canals, lakes, and water pumps providing year round water, demonstrating skill in urban planning and advanced technology for the time]
16. Aqueduct of Segovia, Spain

17. 

    The Great Wall of Tartaria to keep China out

    Great Wall of China, China [while this Buddhist country, officially atheist communists, now has over 1 billion uncounted Buddhists, making Buddhism the world's third largest religion, the Great Wall was built long before the Han Chinese claimed it, by some civilization with far superior skills, some suggesting the work of mythical Tartaria (Tartary) before the reset, with evidence for this being that it was built to keep the Chinese out not in, given that the parapets for deploying ammunition (arrows, molten metal, spears, hot water, and other dangerous projectiles) are pointed toward China, as protection for neighboring Tartaria, restored to include parapets on both sides to hide this fact]
18. 
    Terracotta Army, Xi’an, China [one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in history, Xi’an’s Terracotta Army is awe-inspiring and huge, comprised of around 8,000 pottery soldiers and archers, 130 chariots, and 520 horses, unearthed in three pits in an area spanning 215,278 square feet (20,000sqm), believed to be symbolic spirit guards to protect the body of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 BC and whose tomb lies around a mile (1.6km) away, estimated to have taken 700,000 workers 40 years to build by hand with basic tools]
19. La Danta, El Mirador, Guatemala [in a land named after Gautama Buddha, as documented in How the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America (see above), El Mirador, like Egypt, has a similar (yet somehow more impressive) story because it is located in the Americas inside the Mirador-Rio Azul National Park, a pre-classic Mayan city completed at some point between 600 BC to AD 100, with its largest pyramid at La Danta]

20. 

    Buddhist Sanchi, India

    Sanchi Buddhist Stupa, India [(shown above) is one of the oldest stone structures in India, first built around 300 BC to house relics of the Buddha, once standing 54 feet (16m) high, reconstructed around 185 BC to double its original size with stone slabs re-used to create a flattened dome, atop which stand three structures symbolizing the Dharma (the Wheel of Universal Truth), currently standing at 71 feet (21.6m) high and among the carved gateways, staircases, and top-level platform there are intricate carvings and bas reliefs]
21. Parthenon, Athens, Greece [which as part of the ancient Greco (Hellenistic) culture was in contact with Buddhism through Bactria, a Greco-Buddhist culture in modern-day Central Asia, with Buddhist monastics traveling to ancient Greece, giving us the ancient Buddhist classic the Milinda Panha or "Questions of the Greek King Menander I" (100-200 BC), and influencing the original Buddhist architectural art and the first human depictions of the Buddha (a practice that ran contrary to the historical Buddha's instructions, where Indian Buddhists were meant not to depict him, but no such rule restrained his extended family in ancient Gandhara/Afghanistan and the Bactrian kingdom, which by syncretism gave us gorgeous Greco-Buddhist or Gandharan art.]

22. 

    The miracle of Persepolis, Persia/Iran

    Persepolis Gate of All Nations, Iran [the original Aryan Land, which according to British Buddhist translator Rhys Davids' Buddhist Birth-Stories; Jataka Tales with the Commentarial Intro Entitled Nidanakatha; The Story of the Lineage, has the Buddha claiming to be descended from the "solar race," Aryan or Iranian (Persian) on his mother's side, according to maverick Indian historian Dr. Ranajit Pal, Ph.D., with a shared history from this special part of the world, the Near East that gave rise to an inordinate number of seminal spiritual figures like the Buddha, Mithras (a pre-Christian messiah figure, possibly derived from the name Maitreya or "Friend," which comes from maitri), Zarathustra, and others (see Non-Jonesian Indology and Alexander)]
23. Van Fortress, Turkey [Turkiye being Anatolia, part of the Near East, now most famous for Gobekli Tepe and similar but older nearby archeological sites now uncovered]
24. 
    Chand Baori, Rajasthan, India [made famous in The Fall (2006 film) awe-inspiring for both in its appearance and construction, built by Islamic mathematicians and engineers in the 10th century to supply water to the Abhaneri village in eastern Rajasthan, with 3,500 steps descending some 64 feet (19.5m) into the earth and is one of the world’s largest and deepest step wells in the world, with symmetrical geometry that is incredible – especially when one considers it was built with simple tools, an ancient site that also features an enclosed rectangular courtyard with windows, a three-storied pavilion, pillar-supported galleries, and sculpture-clad balconies]
25. Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England, UK [which may seem impressive until one finds out it was assembled 50 years ago with modern equipment, though some might say restored from fallen stones, which can attribute their precise alignment to constant recalibration over the centuries, very suspect]
26. Pyramids of Giza, Egypt [which, while not as big as the Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico, is the most famous, or close to it; it seems the pyramid with the capstone always gets called the Great Pyramid while a picture of another nearby pyramid is shown]

27. 

    The Great Bath is one example of IVC

    Great Bath, Pakistan [Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley Civilization (8000 BC-2000 BC) was a time of great design and remarkable engineering, and this is showcased in modern-day Pakistan’s Great Bath (though Pakistan is only a 50-year-old country, formerly a part of NW India, home of the ancient university of Taxila (Takkashila), where the Buddha and Ananda attended in a previous life, with famous stupas and bas relief carvings (archeological sites), plus this rectangular-shaped bath, likely used for special occasions and ceremonies with two wide staircases leading down to it, measuring 38 feet (11.8m) long, 22 feet (7m) wide and up to eight feet (2.43m) deep, built with baked bricks and natural tar material to keep it watertight, with an adjacent well providing water and an established drainage outlet, along with adjoining rooms likely used for changing]
28. Göbekli Tepe, Turkey [Anatolia]. More

North Asia although it has few trees and is often inundated in snow still manages to have stupas

Buddhas and devas have been on planet so long that, according to Hendon Harris (chinesediscoveramerica.com) this monolith is super-ancient crumbling stupa found in USA.

Who built Buddhism's Barabar Caves?

Who made the Barabar Caves?

(World of Antiquity) Nov. 4, 2022: This is a deep look at the caves of Barabar and Nagarjuni with an analysis of the conclusions drawn by BAM (Builders of Ancient Mysteries) on the origins of the caves.

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Great Wall of China from space: Kubla Khan

National Geographic Asia, 9/30/20; CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Great Wall of China | HD Wallpapers Images and Photos (hdwallpaperim.com)

Secrets of the Great Wall | Ancient China from above | National Geographic

(National Geographic Asia) Sept. 30, 2020: Archeologist Allan Maca leads a team of intrepid experts on an epic adventure to solve mysteries, explore secrets, and reveal amazing wonders of Ancient China like never before.

Stupa burial mounds exist across Central Asia

Guided by images from space [20 to 50 miles above earth], cutting-edge technology on the ground, and the very latest excavations of Chinese archeologists, they will reveal palaces and tombs, incredible megastructures, and even entire long-lost cities. Along the way they will uncover new revelations about the Great Wall of China, explore the myths of Xanadu [made famous by the British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," which Wisdom Quarterly's own poet in residence, Dhr. Seven, thinks refers to a Buddhist civilization and a description of a Buddhist stupa, pagoda, and temple complex, which Coleridge read about from the writings of a British Christian missionary and traveler who visited the very place Coleridge is dreaming of and trying to describe in verse], and unearth evidence of ancient civilizations — discovers that are rewriting the history books.

"Kubla Khan"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

     Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground

With walls and towers were girdled round;

And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills

Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree;

And here were forests ancient as the hills,

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Not blocks of ice but durable white stones

But oh that deep romantic chasm which slanted

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

A savage place! as holy and enchanted

As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced:

Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:

And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

It flung up momently the sacred river.

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion

Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:

And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

Manmade cave, not of ice but stone

     The shadow of the dome of pleasure

     Floated midway on the waves;

     Where was heard the mingled measure

     From the fountain and the caves.

It was a miracle of rare device,

A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

     A damsel with a dulcimer

     In a vision once I saw:

     It was an Abyssinian maid

     And on her dulcimer she play'd,

     Singing of Mount Abora.

     Could I revive within me

     Her symphony and song,

     To such a deep delight 'twould win me,

That with music loud and long,

I would build that dome in air,

That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

And all who heard should see them there,

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

Weave a circle round him thrice,

And close your eyes with holy dread:

For he on honey-dew hath fed,

And drank the milk of Paradise.

World's largest monolithic structure: Kailasa

Ancient Architects Channel; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, S. Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


Mystery of Kailasa Buddhist Temple, India

This basalt mountain cliff was impossibly carved top down to make a perfectly laid out stone temple that is the largest monolithic structure in the world: Kailasa Temple, Maharashtra, India.

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(Ancient Architects) The enigmatic Kailasa Buddhist, Hindu, Jain Temple is part of the Ellora Buddhist monastic cave complex in Maharashtra, India, has fascinated researchers for centuries.

It is the world’s largest monolithic structure and without doubt one of the most breathtaking sites on the planet. But it is often overlooked or overshadowed by famous sites like:

Sacred Mt. Kailash, Tibet

• Pyramids of Giza in Egypt
• Stonehenge in England
• The Pyramid of the Sun or Cholula (the world's largest pyramid) in Mexico
• Borobudur in Java, Indonesia (the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple complex, the size of hill with stone bells on top)
• Angkor Wat in Angkor, Cambodia (the massive stone Buddhist monastery and surrounding Khmer civilization)
• Angkor Thom in Siem Reap, Cambodia (the Indiana Jones-style Temple of Doom discovered near Angkor, where locals claim there are many such massive structures still buried by jungle overgrowth, much like the Amazon and Mayan civilization temples and others in the Americas)
• Gobekli Tepe in Turkey
• The Bosnian Pyramid in Bosnia
• Mes Aynak in Afghanistan (the world's largest unexcavated Buddhist temple complex)
• Ajina Tepe in Tajikistan
• Machu Picchu in the Andes in Peru.

The strange "pyramids" of Mt. Kailash

Buddhist Kailasa was subsequently inscribed by Hindu artisans and kings, but it is much older. The psychic Madame Blavatsky says it is much, much older, as she says of the super-ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan.

Kailasa is certainly one of humanity’s greatest architectural achievements, assuming that we humans built it on our own. The ancient architects were very likely aided or instructed and provided with the unknown technology by the Devas or "Ancient Astronauts."

All video images were pulled from Google Images and used for educational purposes only.

Space aliens built Buddhist temples? (video)

Disclose Truth TV (DTTV Docs, 3/19); Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly

Ellora Caves: The Mind-Boggling Rock-Cut Buddhist Temples of India

Rock-cut Buddha statues in Ajanta cave

There were no caves here to begin with. How are we to comprehend the 100+ artificial Ellora caves and Ajanta caves? How were they built? By space-devas?

Somehow the massive Ellora complex of publicly visible 34 unique structures has been magically cut out of pure rock, into the side of a mountain, without the use of "modern" technology. This construction would be difficult if not impossible to replicate today.

This never-before-seen documentary closely looks at the intricate Buddhist temple and suggests — as have many archaeologists on the ground — that thousands of years ago, ancient cultures were far more advanced and sophisticated than scholars are generally willing to give them credit for. Who handed them that level of technology?

We call them "caves" but they are much more

What baffles experts at Ellora is the incredible precision, not possible by hand, and extensive layout of the design imposed on the rock. It is plausible that whoever or whatever built these caves was using unknown advanced ancient-alien technology.

Cave 16, the magnificent Kailasa Temple, is notable for being the largest monolithic structure in the world! It was carved out of a single rock.