Report on the Elura cave temples and the Brahmanical and Jaina caves in Western India : completing the results ... of the Archaeological Survey, 1877-78, 1878-79, 1879-80 (Archaeological Survey of Western India, Vol. V)

James Burgess

Trubner, London, 1883

Rare first edition. Folio, bound in 3/4 leathe rover brown boards. Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. VII, 89 p.: plates, 51 plates, including autotypes from photographs. Archaeological Survey of India. New Imperial Series of Reports. vol. 5. "These 34 monasteries and temples, extending over more than 2 km, were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff, not far from Aurangabad, in Maharashtra. Ellora, with its uninterrupted sequence of monuments dating from A.D. 600 to 1000, brings the civilization of ancient India to life. Not only is the Ellora complex a unique artistic creation and a technological exploit but, with its sanctuaries devoted to Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism, it illustrates the spirit of tolerance that was characteristic of ancient India." UNESCO. 

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