“About three hundred yojanas from Kannauj in the western direction is the country of Konkana. Deep inside its southern forests, ringed around a hill of black basalt, lies Kanheri, India’s largest rock-cut cave complex. The Kanheri caves’ three-dimensional mandalas, Cave 41’s stunning sculpture of the ekadasamuka Lokeshwara ; the presence of wrathful deities in the Buddhist caves of Aurangabad; the …
