Kanheri Caves

Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Western Express Highway, Borivali East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400066 Phone: 1800 22 9930 www.maharashtratourism.gov.in

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The architectures of this cave are regarded to be one of the finest in India. According to historians, these caves scooped out between 200 BC and 600 AD. The whole complex has 109 caves cut manually on the flank of a hill; each fitted with a stone plinth that evidently served as a bed. There is a congregation hall supported by the huge stone pillars that has the Dagoba, a kind of Buddhist shrine. Kanheri is regarded as one of the world's great religious houses. There are a 20 feet colossal Buddha, an 11-headed Bodisattva (Buddhist saint) and a Nagaraja, an ancient pre-Buddhist serpent king who guarded the most famous Buddhist Chaitya hall1 in the caves.

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"chiselled out of a massive black basaltic rock outcropping, these buddhist caves date back to the 1st century bc."

"u also get to see relics from the past."

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very nice n beautiful place

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