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It is about 59 kilometres (37 miles) from the city of Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India, 104 kilometres (65 miles) from the city of Auragabad, and 350 kilometres (220 miles) east-northeast of Mumbai. [8] [20] Ajanta is 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the Ellora Caves, which contain Hindu, Jain and Buddhist caves, the last dating from a period similar ...
Its first trip departed on 16 January 2004 for a week-long maiden trip and was ... include the Ajanta and Ellora Caves. [23] [14] ... Ellora Caves, Mumbai.
Ellora, also called Verul or Elura, is the short form of the ancient name Elloorpuram. [10] The older form of the name has been found in ancient references such as the Baroda inscription of 812 AD which mentions "the greatness of this edifice" and that "this great edifice was built on a hill by Krishnaraja at Elapura, the edifice in the inscription being the Kailasa temple. [3]
It mentions Krishnaraja as the patron of Kailasanatha, and also mentions a Shiva temple at Elapura (Ellora). It states that the king constructed a temple so wondrous that even the gods and the architect were astonished. [8] Most scholars believe that this is a reference to the Kailasanatha Shiva temple at Ellora. [9]
Though in the 20th century, a few scholars started looking at these cave temples as a missing link between Ajanta and Ellora and also after an exhaustive study, were compelled to describe it as a " Sensitive remaking of life situated in time and space span". [1] It is a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India. [6]
Ajanta Express runs through eastern Maharashtra (Marathwada region) and the north-western region of Telangana.It was known as Kacheguda Express very often by the people travelling on Kacheguda–Nizamabad–Nanded–Parbhani–Aurangabad route on former Hyderabad–Godavari Valley Railways.
MH MSH 8 Aurangabad – Ajanta – Fardapur – Pahur – Jamner – Bodwad – Muktainagar – Maharashtra – Madhya Pradesh state border. Aurangabad, Jalgaon, Nandurbar: MH MSH 9 Nagpur – Umred – Nagbhid- Mul – Gondpipri: Chandrapur, Nagpur: MH MSH 10 Via NH 6 From Nadgaon – Morshi – Warud – Maharashtra – Madhya Pradesh state ...
Its close family likeness to Cave No.12 at Ajanta and others at Bhaja and Kondane, all of the earliest age, suggest about the same date. [33] The earliest of the Kanheri Caves were excavated in the 1st and 2nd centuries B.C., as were those at Ajanta, which were occupied continuously by Buddhist monks from 200 BCE to 650 AD.