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 A Chapel in the Elephanta Caves

''By far the best known of all the cave-temples of India are those at Elephanta, an island some six miles from Bombay. Unlike the temple at Karli, the rock-shrine at Elephanta is sacred to Brahmanisim, and especially to Siva. The caves are belie-red to hare been excavated between the ninth and eleventh centuries of our era although the pious natives who flock there in vast numbers at the great festival of Siva in the latter part of February attribute to them a fabulous antiquity and a legendary origin.''