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Elephanta Caves

Rock-cut Shaiva temples on an island in Mumbai harbour, cut from the basalt rather than built on it. The seven-metre three-headed Trimurti in the main cave is among the great works of Indian sculpture; much of the rest is broken, and who broke it is still argued over.

Dated events and their evidence

• 550 CE mainstream
  cave temples completed, attributed to the Kalachuri period source
• 1534 CE disputed
  Portuguese occupation; responsibility for the defacement contested source
• 1987 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a World Heritage site source

Where

18.9633° N, 72.9314° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephanta_Caves

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