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In the year 1843 I read a paper to the Royal Asiatic Society on the Rock-Cut Temples of India, in which I embodied the results obtained during several journeys I had undertaken between the years 1836 and 1842 for the purpose of investigating their history and forms, together with those of the other architectural antiquities of India. It was the first attempt that had then been made to treat the subject as a whole. Many monographs of individual temples ...
The book contains cave by cave discussion of cave temples at Ellore which are renowned worlwide for their architechtural planning and beauty. The discovery of the caves of Ellore brought unprecedental glory to the ancient caves of Ellore created these marvellous pieces of art.