Elephanta Caves is an island destination that Lin visits with Prabaker to see the caves. Its brief appearance links a sightseeing trip to a conversation in which Karla describes the place as beautiful and recalls a different cave, at Ajanta, where she once spent the night.

The Visit

Lin tells Karla that Prabaker took him to Elephanta Island to see the caves. The account establishes the visit as part of the pair’s tour, while leaving the caves themselves undescribed: the focus is on where they went, not on a detailed account of the site or what they saw there.

A Place Recalled in Conversation

Karla responds by calling Elephanta beautiful, then recommends that Lin visit the Ajanta and Ellora caves in the north of the state. She connects that recommendation to her own memory of spending a night in one of Ajanta’s caves with her boss. The exchange distinguishes Lin’s visit to Elephanta from Karla’s experience at Ajanta, making caves a point of connection between their travels without suggesting that the two visited them together.