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Elephanta Caves (Wikipedia)

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A Wikipedia article on the Elephanta Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage rock-cut cave temple complex on Gharapuri Island in Mumbai harbour, describing the fifteen large relief panels surrounding the lingam chapel in the main cave, including panel-by-panel dimensions, iconographic detail and condition for the Ardhanarishvara, Nataraja and Gangadhara panels. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Reliability Tier
3
Tier three: a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, matching this atlas's established convention for a Wikipedia citation. Used here for panel-by-panel iconographic description corroborated independently by Sahapedia.
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Wikipedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephanta_Caves
Source Type
encyclopedia
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This source names Ardhanarishvara directly: "detail and condition for the Ardhanarishvara, Nataraja and Gangadhara panels."

Source Elephanta Caves (Wikipedia)
Nataraja, Deities

This source names Nataraja directly: "and condition for the Ardhanarishvara, Nataraja and Gangadhara panels."

Source Elephanta Caves (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (80 claims)

This source backs 80 claims across the atlas. As facts: 69 well-attested. As cited relationships: 9 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sacred Art & Iconography, 73 claims: 64 well-attested, 7 holds, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.

Well-attested

69

Sacred Art & Iconography

General References

2

Sacred Art & Iconography

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