THE ELLORA CAVES [16c]
Aurangabad, India. 200 miles northeast of Mumbai stands a monolithic temple complex known as the Ellora Caves. These 34 sites of worship, extending over a mile, were carved out of a high cliff, and are believed to date back to between 600 and 1000 AD. Cave 16 known as Kailasa Temple, is a massive shrine to Lord Shiva. At three stories high, it stands twice as tall as the Parthenon in Athens, and archaeologists believe it was chiseled out of the hillside starting at the top and ending at the bottom. Some historians estimate that construction of the temple required the removal of over 400,000 tons of rock, but even more incredible is that mainstream archaeologists propose that this feat was accomplished in just 18 years.
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“If people worked every day for that 18 years, for 12 hours straight with no breaks, then they would have to have removed five tons of rock every hour. This is ten thousand pounds of rock every hour. In reality, such a feat is not even possible today with modern technology.” – Praveen Mohan (Founder, PhenomenalPlace) |
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“If it happened in 18 years, it is very hard to account for the volume of material that was removed. As an engineer, it is my belief that Kailasanathar Temple would not have taken just 18 years. It would have taken more close to a century. It is very, very hard to believe, even now, how this was accomplished.” – A.V. Srinivasan, Ph.D. (Author, How to Conduct Puja to Shiva) |
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“Another baffling fact is that if they removed 400,000 tons of rocks, they have to be thrown away somewhere. But we do not find any evidence of rocks being piled up nearby. It hasn’t been used to build any other temples or any other structure. Where did all that rock go?” – Deepak Shimkhada, Ph.D. |
Could humans living over 1,000 years ago really have constructed Kailasa Temple in only 18 years? And, if so, how is it that all the rock that was excavated has simply disappeared? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a powerful device described in the ancient Vedic texts.
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“Interestingly, there is a device called Bhaumastra mentioned in the ancient Vedic texts. This high-tech machine would be able to quickly drill into the rock and basically vaporize them. This could basically change the rock into air. This device was mentioned multiple times in ancient Vedic texts, which was used to mine for precious stones and metals. Could this be how Kailasa Temple was built?” – Praveen Mohan (Founder, PhenomenalPlace) |
Is it possible that the Bhaumastra machine described in the Vedic texts was really a technological device that existed on Earth thousands of years ago? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes, but suggest it was used not to build Kailasa Temple from the top down, as mainstream scholars propose, but carved out the structure from the bottom up.
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“One of the more mysterious aspects of the site of Ellora are the tunnels that seem to go nowhere at the site. Some of them turn at odd angles. Some go as deep as 40 feet. Now the reasons for this are, for the most part, unknown.” – Layne Little, Ph.D. |
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“This is one of the tunnels leading underground at the Kailasa Temple. You can see that the local authorities have fenced this off. But if you look through this hole, you can see that this tunnel goes vertically down. Local authorities believe that tunnels like these lead to a vast underground city under Kailasa Temple.” – Praveen Mohan (Founder, PhenomenalPlace) |
What could be the purpose for these tunnels below Kailasa Temple? And why are they fenced off from the public? In 1876, renowned English spiritualist Emma Hardinge Britten published Ghost Land, in which she writes of hidden tunnels beneath the Ellora Caves and the meetings of a secret cabal of mystics in an underground city. Britten tells of spiritually contacting a mysterious figure named Cavalier Louie, who witnessed the clandestine society.
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“Cavalier Louie states that he was taken into the site of Ellora, where he was led through a secret passageway into an underground chamber. The underground chamber opened up into a huge amphitheater, and there were these wondrous metallic thrones that were being charged with powerful galvanic batteries that rose up into the air. And seated on these thrones were seven mysterious hooded figures. But the most interesting one was the one in the center who spoke, and yet was not always there. His body shimmered in and out of physical space and time.” – Layne Little, Ph.D. |
But why would vast rooms and tunnels exist deep underground beneath Kailasa Temple? Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest this could be further evidence that Lord Shiva has a connection with the Great Flood.
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“We have a great deluge that changed the face of the Earth and forced people underground. So, you have to wonder, is this some kind of ancient city, many thousands of years old, that was once some kind of extraterrestrial base? And as the water receded, they create this temple from underground. Presently, archaeologists date the Kailasa Temple from the 5th- to the 10th-century AD. But there is nothing in the temple that really gives it a date. And, in fact, like many things in ancient India, and around the world, these temples may be much, much older than the mainstream archaeologists are saying.” – David Childress (Author, Technology of the Gods), |
Could it be that hidden beneath Kailasa Temple is an underground alien city? And if so, would this prove that the being Hindus call Shiva was really an extraterrestrial visitor who gave technology to an earlier race of humans and ultimately destroyed them? Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a sacred icon believed to hold extraordinary power.
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