The Great Chaitya Hall of Karla Caves Carved deep into the basalt hills of western India, the Karla Caves represent one of the earliest and most ambitious examples of rock-cut Buddhist architecture. Excavated between the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE, the site is dominated by its monumental chaitya hall—a prayer space designed to echo the timber construction of earlier wooden structures. The tall octagonal pillars lining the hall are topped with sculpted capitals of humans, animals, and

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