In the Charanandri hills, thirty-four caves were cut between the 6th and 10th centuries CE — twelve Buddhist, seventeen Hindu, five Jain — standing side by side in a single two-kilometre cliff. Its crown is Cave 16, the Kailasa temple: the world's largest monolithic rock excavation, commissioned by the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I (r. c. 756-773 CE) and carved from the top down, with some 200,000 tonnes of basalt removed. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1983, Ellora is ancient India's great statement of religious coexistence — and the Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga stands about a kilometre away.