EVERY summer, many thousand people drive on holidays to Kullu, Manali or Dharamsala but very few know that a small detour from their usual destinations will take them to one of the most amazing temples of India. It is also perhaps the oldest Hindu temple in north India. The earliest temples were cut inside caves or hewn out of living rock until the south Indian technology of building with prefabricated pillars, beams and panels became popular after the ninth century.
The Kailash temple at Ellora is the biggest and most famous temple of this type that was cut from top. . .