Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Elephanta Caves' has mentioned 'Cave' in the following places:
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| The main cave (Cave 1, or the Great Cave) was a Hindu place of worship until the Portuguese arrived, whereupon the island ceased to be an active place of worship. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Geography 2 History 3 Description 3.1 Cave 1: Main, Great Cave 3.1.1 Sadasiva: Trimurti 3.1.2 Gangadhara 3.1.3 Ardhanarishvara 3.1.4 Shiva slaying Andhaka 3.1.5 Wedding of Shiva 3.1.6 Yogishvara: Lord of Yoga 3.1.7 Nataraja: Lord of Dance 3.1.8 Mount Kailash and Ravananugraha 3.1.9 Linga shrine 3.1.10 East wing: Shaktism 3.1.11 West wing: Other traditions 3.2 Caves 2-5: Canon hill 3.3 Stupa hill: caves 6-7, stupas 1-2 3.4 Lost monuments 4 Preservation 5 In literature 6 See also 7 References 7.1 Bibliography 8 External links | WIKI |
| Close to the five western hill caves, are Cave 6 and 7 on the eastern hill. | WIKI |
| The most visited and significant cave is on the western hill and is called Cave 1 or the Great Cave, located about a kilometer walk up a steep graded uphill. | WIKI |
| The panels reflect the ideas and stories widely accepted and well known to the artists and cave architects of India by about 525 CE. | WIKI |
| The mythology varies significantly in these texts and has been much distorted by later interpolations, but the Elephanta Cave panels represent the narrative version most significant in the 6th century. | WIKI |
| According to Macneil, the monuments and caves were already desecrated during the Sultanate rule, basing his findings on the Persian inscription on a door the leads to the grand cave. | WIKI |
| In the late 1970s, the Government of India restored the main cave in its attempt to make it a tourist and heritage site. | WIKI |
| The primary cave, numbered as Cave 1, is about 1.0xc2xa0km (0.62xc2xa0mi) up a hillside, facing the Mumbai harbour. | WIKI |
| Caves 2 through 5 are next to Cave 1 further southeast, arranged in a row. | WIKI |
| Cave 6 and 7 are about 200xc2xa0m (660xc2xa0ft) northeast of Cave 1 and 2, but geologically on the edge of the eastern hill. | WIKI |
| Cave 1 is the largest and is 39 metres (128xc2xa0ft) deep from the front entrance to the back. | WIKI |
| Cave 1: Main, Great Cave[edit] | WIKI |
| The main cave, also called Cave 1, Grand Cave or the Great Cave, is 39.63 metres (130.0xc2xa0ft) square in plan with a hall (mandapa). | WIKI |
| [10] The basic plan of the cave can be traced back to the plan of the ancient Buddhist viharas, consisting of a square court surrounded by cells, built from about 500 to 600 years before in India. | WIKI |
| [38] The Cave has several entrances, the main entrance is unassumingly small and hides the grand hall inside. | WIKI |
| The cave's main entrance is aligned with the northxe2x80x93south axis, unusual for a Shiva shrine (normally eastxe2x80x93west). | WIKI |
| Elephanta main cave plan. | WIKI |
| Shiva linga in elephanta cave at west side | WIKI |
| To reach the main cave, a visitor or pilgrim has to walk up 120 steep steps from the beach or take the tourist toy train. | WIKI |
| Main entrance, Cave 1Side entranceMain mandapa and pillars | WIKI |
| The temple is enclosed in the cave, it has interior walls but no exterior wall. | WIKI |
| Embedded within the Great Cave are dedicated shrines, the largest of which is the square plan Linga shrine (see 16 in plan). | WIKI |
| The northern entrance to the cave is flanked by two panels of Shiva dated to the Gupta period, both damaged. | WIKI |
| All the friezes, states Stella Kramrisch, feature the vyaktavyakta concept of Samkhya, where the state of spiritual existence transitions between the unmanifest-manifest, the figures leap out of the cave walls towards the spectator as if trying to greet the narrative. | WIKI |
| [44] It is carved in relief on the south wall of the cave facing the north entrance, along the north-south axis. | WIKI |
| The panel in the northwest side of the cave, on the wall near west entrance and the Linga shrine (see 7 in plan), is an uncommon sculpture about the Andhakasura-vadha legend. | WIKI |
| However, in this Elephanta Cave panel, the narrative shows some earlier version. | WIKI |
| In some ways, the yogi artwork shown in this Hindu cave are similar to those found in Buddhist caves, but there are differences. | WIKI |
| [62] According to Charles Collins, the depiction of Shiva as Yogi in Elephanta Cave 1 is harmonious with those found in the Puranas dated to early and mid 1st millennium CE. | WIKI |
| There are fewer gods, goddesses and observers in this panel than others in this cave, with Brahma, Vishnu, Lakshmi, Saraswati and Parvati are visible and have a facial expression of being spellbound. | WIKI |
| [67][69] The dancer and destroyer aspects of Shiva are clustered in the northwest part of the cave, in contrast to yoga and creator aspects that are found in the northeast parts. | WIKI |
| Shiva Linga shrine inside the cave complex. | WIKI |
| The central shrine of the Great Cave temple is a free-standing square stone cella, with entrances on each of its sides. | WIKI |
| [76] The temple and all the pillars are laid out to lead the pilgrim's view towards it, the cella is visible from any point inside the cave and its most significant progression. | WIKI |
| [78][79] According to Sara L. Schastok, the Skanda in the east shrine of Elephanta Cave 1 is significant, just like the one found in Deogarh Hindu temple site, because he is depicted with regalia, weapons and icons similar to Shiva and because he is surrounded by gods and goddesses. | WIKI |
| The larger cave on the south side of the west shrine is closed, contains ruins and is bigger than the eastern side shrine. | WIKI |
| Cave 3 (left) and Cave 4 (right). | WIKI |
| To the south-east of the Great Cave is Cave 2. | WIKI |
| The cave is unfinished. | WIKI |
| The front of this cave was completely destroyed and restored in the 1970s with four square pillars. | WIKI |
| Cave 3 is next to Cave 2, as one continues to go away from the main shrine. | WIKI |
| Cave 4 is quite damaged, the large verandah lacking all its columns. | WIKI |
| The relief remains suggest the cave was once a Shaiva temple as well. | WIKI |
| Cave 5 is unfinished and in a very damaged state, with no artistic remains. | WIKI |
| Photograph of Cave 6, and plan of the cave. | WIKI |
| Across the ravine from Cave 1 on the hill on the other side are two Buddhist caves, together with the remains of a stupa and water tanks. | WIKI |
| One is a large hall known as Cave 6, or Sitabai's temple cave (18xc2xb057xe2x80xb250xe2x80xb3N 72xc2xb056xe2x80xb203xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf18.963835xc2xb0N 72.934125xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 18.963835; 72.934125). | WIKI |
| Cave 6 is historically significant because it was converted and used as a Christian church by the Portuguese in the later years when the island was a part of their colony (at some point between 1534 and 1682). | WIKI |
| Next, along the face of the eastern hill to the north of Sitabai's cave is Cave 7 (18xc2xb057xe2x80xb254xe2x80xb3N 72xc2xb056xe2x80xb205xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf18.965100xc2xb0N 72.934766xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 18.965100; 72.934766), another small excavation with a veranda, which was probably to be three cells, but was abandoned following the discovery of a flaw in the rock. | WIKI |
| Past Cave 7, to the east, is a dry pond, with large artificial boulders and several Buddhist cisterns along its banks. | WIKI |
| [92][93] According to Schastok, some of these are "surely not part of the Great Cave", but it is unclear where they were found when they were moved elsewhere, or when ruins were cleared and restoration process initiated. | WIKI |
| These efforts put back the ruins of Cave 1 and select parts of broken pillars in other caves, along with developing the island as a heritage site. | WIKI |
| It is responsible for monitoring and stabilisation of the rock face, construction of supports to the cave structures where pillars have collapsed, and consolidation of cave floors and construction of a parapet wall surrounding the site. | WIKI |
| The most important among the caves is the great Cave 1, which measures 39 metres from the front entrance to the back. | UNESCO |
| In plan, this cave in the western hill closely resembles Dumar Lena cave at Ellora, in India. | UNESCO |
| The main body of the cave, excluding the porticos on the three open sides and the back aisle, is 27 metres square and is supported by rows of six columns each. | UNESCO |
| The 7-metre-high masterpiece xe2x80x9cSadashivaxe2x80x9d dominates the entrance to Cave 1. | UNESCO |
| Criteria (i): The fifteen large reliefs surrounding the lingam chapel in the main Elephanta Cave not only constitute one of the greatest examples of Indian art but also one of the most important collections for the cult of Shiva. | UNESCO |