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• The Portuguese Wadala and Elephanta island still remained under Portuguese possession, as much as Thane or Vasai.
• Elephanta Island, Butcher Island, Oyster Rock, Cross Island and Middle Ground are scattered across the Creek.
• In modern times, the Elephanta island in Mumbai, Lord's Shiva island in local mythology, originated the Elephant Festival.
• Preservation of Elephanta Island as a whole with its monuments has been ensured both through legislation and by physical restoration of the caves and its sculptures.
• "Gharapuri Island ", also known as " Elephanta Island ", is the best known of the islands in Mumbai Harbour.
• The bridge will begin in Sewri, South Mumbai and cross Thane Creek north of Elephanta Island and will terminate at Chirle village, near Nhava Sheva.
• Around 31 of his copper coins have been found on the Elephanta Island, which suggests that he was the patron of the main cave temple on the island.
• The design of the saunas is inspired by UNESCO World Heritage Sites in South-East Asia, including a cave temple on Elephanta Island in India and the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia.
• Elephanta Island ( also called " Gharapuri Island " ) in Mumbai Harbour was given this name by 17th century Portuguese explorers who saw a monolithic basalt sculpture of an elephant near the entrance to what became known as the Elephanta Caves.
• The cave temples of Elephanta Island ( near Mumbai or Bombay, as it was known formerly ), Ellora ( in Maharashtra ), and structural temples of Pattadakal, Aihole, Badami in Karnataka and Mahaballipuram and Kanchipuram in Tamil Nadu are enduring legacies of otherwise warring regional rulers.
• "' Elephanta Caves "'are a network of sculpted caves located on Elephanta Island, or " Gharapuri " ( literally " the city of caves " ) in Mumbai Harbour, to the east of the city of Mumbai in the Shaiva Hindu sect, dedicated to the Lord Shiva.
• The basic legislations enacted are : The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act of 1958 and Rules ( 1959 ); The Elephanta Island ( Protected Monument ) Rules of 1957, which prohibits mining, quarrying, blasting, excavation and other operations near the monument; the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act promulgated in 1972 with its Rules promulgated in 1973; a Notification issued in 1985 declaring the entire island and a area from the shore as " a prohibited area "; a series of Maharashtra State Government environmental acts protecting the site; the 1966 Regional and Town Planning Act; and the 1995 Heritage Regulations for Greater Bombay.