Kanheri caves. Hand chiseled by Buddhist monks at around the first century AD.

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Kanheri caves were cut into the rocks bay Buddhist monks who practiced their austerities there around the first century AD The complex contains more than a hundred tiny spartan cells but there is also a congregation hall supported by huge stone pillars that contains the dagoba a kind of Buddhist shrine There are as well channels and cisterns that are remnants of an ancient water system Sanjay Gandhi National Park Borivali Mumbai Bombay Maharastra India Asia

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Location: Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Borivali, Maharastra, India
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