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Elephanta

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Elephanta

Island in Mumbai harbour, Maharashtra state, India, some 8 km/5 mi from Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The 6th-century Temple Caves, cut out of solid rock, have sculptures of many Hindu deities carved 450–740. Formerly known as Gharapuri, the island was renamed by Portuguese in 1535, after a large stone elephant near the island's landing place. The statue is now in Mumbai.



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As well might those tablets stand in the cave of Elephanta as here.
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He would not deign to examine even the masterpieces of Elephanta, or the mysterious hypogea, concealed south-east from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist architecture, the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette.
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