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Elephanta Caves – 3

Photograph courtesy:  Ivan Ciment, GlobalThoughts.com April 2005

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The earliest documented description is that of Garcia da Orta, who sailed with his countryman, the Portuguese ship captain and adventurer Martim Afonso de Sousa. Da Orta, describing Elephanta, records the following:

Another pagoda, the best of all, is on an island called Pori, which we call the Isle of the Elephant. On it there is a hill and in the upper part of it is a subterranean house worked out of the living rock…On the walls, all round, there are sculptured images of elephants, lions, tigers and many human images, some like Amazons, and in many other shapes well sculptured…   

– Continued

 
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