Reliefs in one of Kanheri cave. Sanjay Gandhi National Park Borivali, India


Kanheri caves were cut into the rocks bay Buddhist monks who practised 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 state, India
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