Explanation:

1. It is dotted with several important rock-cut and free-standing structural temples -mostly made in the seventh and eighth centuries in the Pallava period.This large sculptural panel,one of the largest and oldest known in the world, is nearly thirty metres long and fifteen metres high.
2. Some believe that it is the story of the descent of the Ganga from heaven to earth, others believe that the main story is of Kiratarjuniya or Arjuna’s penance, a poetic work by Bharvi which is known to have been popular in the Pallava court.
3. There are mandapa viharas also called cave temples with narratives from the Mahabharata, Shaivism, Shaktism and Vaishnavism with inscriptions in multiple Indian languages and scripts.