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Ancient · Buddhist · India
Kuda Caves
कुडा लेणी
Kuda, Raigad, Maharashtra · 18.2850°, 73.0737°
The Buddha, in a chaitya enshrining a stupa and carved with Buddha reliefsUndetermined—
Sacred since
100 BCE
first attestation / structure
Standing structure
1st c. BCE, with 5th-6th c. Mahayana additions
Undetermined
History & significance
Fifteen Buddhist caves in south Konkan near Murud-Janjira, cut in the first century BCE and taken over by Mahayana Buddhists who added sculpture in the fifth or sixth century. Thirty inscriptions record gifts from merchants, physicians and officials, a rare record of lay patronage.