The history of cave paintings in India range from drawings and paintings from prehistoric times, beginning around 30,000 BCE in the caves of Central India, typified by those at the Bhimbetka rock shelters to elaborate frescoes at sites such as the rock-cut artificial caves at Ajanta and Ellora, extending as late as the 8th - 10th century CE.
It got the appellation "Indra Sabha" probably it is significantly ornate and also because of the sculpture of the yaksha (dedicated attendant deity) Matanga on an elephant, which was wrongly identified as that of Indra.
Yasushi Akutagawa's Ellora Symphony was composed in 1958 after a visit to the Ellora Caves in Aurangabad, India.
Gilikson named the community after his brother's ship, which was itself inspired by the Ellora Caves near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.
Kailashnath Temple, also Kailash or Kailāsa or Kailasanath Temple, is a famous temple, one of the 34 monasteries and temples known collectively as the Ellora Caves, extending over more than 2 km, that were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex located at Ellora, Maharashtra, India.
Mogao Caves | Ellora Caves | Ajanta Caves | Sea Lion Caves | Carlton M. Caves | Wookey Hole Caves | The Caves of Steel | Nidderdale Caves | Green Grotto Caves | Cango Caves | Bluefish Caves | Sally Caves | Man Caves | Koněprusy Caves | Karla Caves | Jenolan Caves | Jalan Batu Caves | Ellora Patnaik | Elephanta Caves | Caves of Han-sur-Lesse | Batu Caves | Ajanta caves |
He has photographed historic monuments, ancient art and ancient Buddhist paintings of India and he has also photographed Badami caves, Lepakshi Temple, Brahadeeshwara Temple, Ellora Caves, Bagh caves etc. and published in international magazines like National Geographic.
Ellora in India and Lalibela in Ethiopia provide the most spectacular and famous examples of such structures.