The Rock-cut Temples of India/The Caves of Ellora/Vihara—Ellora
VIHARA.—ELLORA.
THE principal Vihara attached to this Chaitya is that called Dehr warra, one of the largest excavations of its class, being 110 ft. deep by 70 ft. in width, including the side recesses. Unfortunately it is much too low to have a good effect architecturally, and its details are infinitely inferior to those of Ajunta of the same age.
The other Viharas are smaller—about the same average size as those of Ajunta, and more similar to them in plan. But the details of their architecture are almost all identical, as in this illustration, with those of the Viswakarma, and they seem so much alike in style that all were probably executed within the limits of the same century as the Chaitya itself,—most probably all within the limit of one thousand years from this date.