January
19
/ 2016
Seven caves that served as shelters from monsoons for Buddhist monks more than 2,000 years ago (and even into the 1990s) have been discovered in the forests of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Mumbai, India. One of the caves has the ruins of a harmika or the top part of a stupa. These are not the only Buddhist caves in the park, which is the biggest park inside any city in the world. About 160 other caves, named the Kanheri Caves, are nearby and were dug about 2,000 years ago. The seven recently discovered caves date from between the first century BC and the fifth or sixth century AD, say various news reports from India. One of the researchers
