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Goa Gajah (Elephant Cave)

Rock-cut sanctuary near Ubud in Bali, entered through a cave mouth carved as a huge demon face. Inside are a Ganesha statue and three lingas of Shiva, while fallen Buddhist stupa carvings lie in the ravine below. In front of the cave is a bathing pool with female fountain figures, which was only excavated in the 1950s.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1050 CE disputed
  11th c.: cave sanctuary carved, dated by the style of its script source
• 1365 CE mainstream
  site named in the Old Javanese poem Desawarnana source
• 1923 CE mainstream
  cave with its Ganesha and lingas rediscovered by Dutch officials source
• 1954 CE mainstream
  bathing pool and fountain figures excavated in front of the cave source
• 1995 CE mainstream
  placed on the UNESCO Tentative List (withdrawn in 2015) source

Where

8.5234° S, 115.2863° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7762858
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Gajah

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