Ellora caves are in Nasik, India.
A visit to an interesting monument.
Antonio,
Thanks for bringing us this window on a world most of us have no idea ever existed. For me looking up the background of this shrine and the network of a hundred similar adjacent man-hewn caves, was a wonderful eye opener!
As you no doubt know, in the first millennium of the common era, diverse faiths flourished in extraordinary close proximity to one another. There seemed to have been no animus. However the anthropomorphic representations in the myriad of temples got enthusiastically damaged as that offended the teachings of Islamic rulers that took over the area in the 13th Century and onwards.
Still, the rest of the shrines have survived intact and this all is part of our human heritage.
It seems that in religions, the doings of imagined beings get told over and over again and then become seriously real!
Then tribalism sets in and faith is used by leaders to win over followers and take control of vast areas of human habitation.
With the events of 2016 in the USA and the defacing of ancient shrines in Syria, we see that things have not really changed!
Asher