RUK-u- DIN RISHI (Dargah ka)
33.766700,75.216700
Description
A natural cave modified into a sacred Muslim cave tomb (dargah) associated with Pir (saint) Ruku Din Rishi, disciple of –>Baba Ramdin Rishi. SITUATION: LAWRENCE (1895 edited 1967: 169) places the temple cave at an unspecified location somewhere north of the village of Bawan, and at the foot of the cliff less than a kilometer up the Liddar valley from –>Bhamajo Cave (note 1). LAWRENCE (1895 edited 1967: 169, 1981, 1996, 2002, 2005), repeated by FOTEDAR (2002: 8.34) notes in connection with –>Bhamajo Cave: »The shrine of Baba Ramdin Rishi and the tomb of his disciple Ruku din Rishi are also close by« and considers one of them as a »… copy of the [Bhamajo] cave-temple, but may be of much later date.«
NOTE 1: The –>Bhamajo Shelters and the smaller cave shrine in the Ziarat of –>Baba Ramdin Rishi are in the same vicinity, where CUNNINGHAM (1848: 251, 252) observed »square chambers [kind of cubicles or 'square' in the sense of plain, rough, artless?] which once were most probably the monastic dwellings of Buddhist priests or destined for the reception of figures« and where WALTHAM, A C (1971b: 25) noted »rock shelters adjacent to Bhamajo Bat Cave« and STRASSER (1993: 347) »Weitere Höhlen in der Nachbarschaft mit in den Fels eingetieften Kulträumen wurden in Moslemgräber umgewandelt.«
Caves nearby
| Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | BHIMA DEVI (Cave of) | ||
| 0.0 | SHIVA, Bhamajo (Cave of) | ||
| 0.9 | BAWAN SPRINGS | ||
| 0.9 | KAMALA NAG | ||
| 1.8 | BHAMAJO CAVE | ||
| 1.9 | SURYA GOFFAR, Martand | ||
| 2.4 | SER (Höhle bei) | ||
| 4.8 | SUCCURGAOM | ||
| 7.2 | Maliknag |