ELLORA, a village of India, in the native state of Hyderabad, near the city of Daulatabad, famous for its rock temples. The caves differ from those of Ajanta in being excavated in the sloping sides of a hill and not in a nearly perpendicular cliff. They extend along the face of the hill for a mile and a quarter, and are divided into three distinct series, the Buddhist, the Brahmanical and the Jain, and are arranged almost chronologically. The most splendid is the Kailas, which is not a mere interior chamber but a model of a complete Dravidian temple, the rock having been cut away externally as well as internally. First the great sunken court was hewn out of the solid trap-rock of the hillside, leaving the rock mass of the temple wholly detached in a cloistered court, save that a rock bridge once connected the upper storey of the temple with the upper row of galleried chambers surrounding three sides of the court. Colossal elephants and obelisks stand on either side of the open mandapam, or pavilion, containing the sacred bull; and beyond rises the monolithic Dravidian temple to Siva, 90 ft. in height, hollowed into vestibule, chamber and image cells, all lavishly carved. The temple was made under Krishna I., Rashtrakuta, king of Malkhed in 760-783.