A 28 km drive from Gondal gets you to Khambhalida. It has got three caves where the central one is called ‘Chaitya’ with a worn out stupa. The lonesome cry of peacocks and dancing dust devils guide you to an isolated cliff face where two imposing sentinels, statues carved in stone of the Bodhistava and on the right Vajrapani, guard a series of Buddhist caves hewn out of solid rocks some time in the 4th century AD.Saturday, April 16, 2011
Khambhalida-Rajkot
A 28 km drive from Gondal gets you to Khambhalida. It has got three caves where the central one is called ‘Chaitya’ with a worn out stupa. The lonesome cry of peacocks and dancing dust devils guide you to an isolated cliff face where two imposing sentinels, statues carved in stone of the Bodhistava and on the right Vajrapani, guard a series of Buddhist caves hewn out of solid rocks some time in the 4th century AD.
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