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Location: District Nasik (Maharashtra) - Lat 19º 59'N, Long 73º 47'E
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The group of twenty four caves are also known as Pandulena, was cut in a long line in the north face of a hill about 8 kms. from Nasik, situated on an important ancient trade route. The caves represent a brilliant phase in the rock cut Buddhist architecture of the second century AD, as majority of the caves belong to this time period. The two largest monastic establishments were built by the contemporary Kings. The remaining caves were the gifts of the common people including monks and a writer as per the inscribed evidences in the caves. The door frame of chaitya griha cave no. 18 is embellished with likeness of the facade of the chaitya griha with a vaunted roof and its jambs. The interior of Chaitya is severely plain. On the either side of the chaitya griha is a monastery with cave 17 and 20 forming part of one unified scheme. The monastery was probably enlarged in 6th and 7th century AD. The embellishment of the facade of cave no. 17 with pillars and pilaster bears a striking resemblance to the cave no. 10. The cave also underwent addition in the later period, when a relief of Lord Buddha was carved on the back wall of the hall to the right of the door of the back cell, which has a pillared portico in the front. Next to cave 20 but at a lower level is cave 19,one of the earliest monasteries. Among the monasteries, cave 3 and 10 have outshown others in size, planning and splendor on account of their happy combination of the architectural grandeur and sculptural embellishment. The monastery consists of a pillared veranda approached by a central flight of steps, with a cell on either side and sixteen cells, each with a rock cut bed, arranged on three sides of a spacious astylar hall. The chief beauty of this cave lies in its dignified facade, effectively composed and carved. The cave 3 is more ornamental and later version of cave 10.

Among the caves with relief of Buddha and Bodhisattvas, cave 23 consists of irregular excavation of more than one unit, all now forming one complex with full of partition walls containing the maximum number of such reliefs, including one depicting the Maha Parinirvana and a number of female deities.



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