Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Ellora Caves' has mentioned 'Buddhist' in the following places:
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| It is one of the largest rock-cut Hindu temple cave complexes in the world, featuring Hinduism in particular and few Buddhist and Jain monuments with Artwork dating from the 600xe2x80x931000 CE period. | WIKI |
| [3] These consist of 17 Hindu (caves 13xe2x80x9329), 12 Buddhist (caves 1xe2x80x9312) and 5 Jain (caves 30xe2x80x9334) caves,[6][7] each group representing deities and mythologies prevalent in the 1st millennium CE, as well as monasteries of each respective religion. | WIKI |
| However, the overlapping styles between the Buddhist, Hindu and Jaina caves has made it difficult to establish agreement concerning the chronology of their construction. | WIKI |
| [15] The disputes generally concern: one, whether the Buddhist or Hindu caves were carved first and, two, the relative dating of caves within a particular tradition. | WIKI |
| have stated that the Ellora caves had three important building periods: an early Hindu period (~550 to 600 CE), a Buddhist phase (~600 to 730 CE) and a later Hindu and Jain phase (~730 to 950 CE). | WIKI |
| Construction in the early Hindu caves commenced before any of the Buddhist or Jaina caves. | WIKI |
| Cave 15 has cells and a layout plan that are similar to Buddhist Caves 11 and 12, which suggests this cave was intended to be a Buddhist cave; however, the presence of non-Buddhist features, such as a Nrtya Mandapa (an Indian classical dance pavilion) at its entrance, indicated otherwise. | WIKI |
| According to James Harle, Hindu images have been found in Buddhist Cave 11, while many Hindu deities have been incorporated in Buddhist caves of the region. | WIKI |
| This overlap in disparate designs between Buddhist and Hindu caves may be due to the sites being worked on by the same architects and workers, or perhaps a planned Buddhist cave was adapted into a Hindu monument. | WIKI |
| Furthermore, given that both the Hindu and Buddhist caves were predominantly anonymous, with no donative inscriptions having been discovered for the Buddhist Ellora caves other than those of Hindu dynasties that built them, the original intent and nature of these cave temples is speculative. | WIKI |
| [61][62] The earliest Buddhist cave is Cave 6, then 5, 2, 3, 5 (right wing), 4, 7, 8, 10 and 9,[60] with caves 11 and 12, also known as Do Thal and Tin Thal respectively, being the last. | WIKI |
| [10] Caves 1 through 9 are all monasteries while Cave 10, the Vxc4xabxc5x9bvakarmxc4x81 Cave, is a major Buddhist prayer hall. | WIKI |
| Numerous tantric Buddhist goddesses are carved in Cave 12. | WIKI |
| Part of the Carpenter's cave (Buddhist Cave 10) | WIKI |
| [72][73] These caves are smaller than the Buddhist and Hindu caves but nonetheless feature highly detailed carvings. | WIKI |
| 19th-century historians confused the Jain Yaksas for alternate images of Indra that were found in Buddhist and Hindu artworks, thus leading to the temple being given the misnomer "Indra Sabha". | WIKI |
| There have been several records written in the centuries following their completion indicating that these caves were visited regularly, particularly as it was within sight of a trade route;[107] for example, Ellora was known to have been frequented by Buddhist monks in the 9th and 10th centuries. | WIKI |
| Desecrated statues in a Hindu Cave (left) and a Buddhist Cave. | WIKI |
| The Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain monuments at Ellora show substantial damage, particularly to the idols, whereas intricate carvings on the pillars, and of natural objects on the walls, remain intact. | WIKI |
| [115] According to Geri Malandra, such devastation by Muslims stemmed from the perceived offense caused by "the graphic, anthropomorphic imagery of Hindu and Buddhist shrines". | WIKI |
| Amongst the caves of the Buddhist group, Cave 10 (Visvakarma or Sutar-ki-jhopari, the Carpenterxe2x80x99s cave), Cave 11, and Cave 12 (Teen Tal, or three-storied monastery, the largest in this category) are particularly important. | UNESCO |
| These caves mark the development of the Vajrayana form of Buddhism and represent a host of Buddhist deities. | UNESCO |