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EXCAVATED TEMPLE OF KYLAS, CAVES OF ELLORA.

Artist: S. Prout - Engraved by: E. Challis



Excavated Temple of Kylas.—It is observed, in Elliot's Views of India, that of all the excavations, that of Kylas is "the most extraordinary and beautiful." This is no place to do more than allude to the wonderful influence of the Hindostan superstitions; if they did not create, they at least furnished the material of the Grecian mythology, though softened and beautified by that poetical imagination which formed in the classical time the golden age of poetry upon earth.