MANJUSRI CAVE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified characteristics) is said to give access to a so-called Manjushri Cave with a day roost of bats (THAPA, S 2010.05.15: 29). IDENTITY: The so-called Manjushri Cave (THAPA, S 2010.05.15: 29) is probably one of the cave entrances of the –>Chakratirtha - Parahamsa Gufa. ETYMOLOGY: The mythological Bodhisattwa Manjushri is the good man who cared to split the mountain Kotwal (Kotwaldar), thus cutting the Chobar gorge which drained the palaeo-lake Hrad Nag that flooded the Kathmandu Vale (note 1). SITUATION: THAPA, S (2010.05.15: 29) located Manjushree Cave not only in an unspecified setting somewhere in the vicinity of the Chobar gorge (note 2) and above one or the other banks of the Bagmati River but also in an unidentified spatial relations to the cave entrances of –>Bagh Cave, Chobar, –>Barahi Cave, Chobar, and –>Cave, Chobar. CAVE LIFE: THAPA, S (2010.05.15: 29) relates to bat (Chiroptera) and notices two adult males (Bagh Cave, Chobhar) and one adult male (Manjushree Cave, Chobhar) of Hipposideros cineraceus Blyth 1853: More than a hundred individuals were estimated during their flight observation at entrances of four caves; Bagh cave, Naya cave, Manjushree cave and Barahi cave. … The flight emergence was noted 17:45 in the evening. Two males were mist netted during 17:42 and 17:50 one after another at the entrance of Bagh Cave, Chobhar on December 31, 2009. It was netted at an entrance of the Manjushree cave at 19:15 PM on September 16, 2008.An unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified characteristics) is said to give access to a so-called Manjushri Cave with a day roost of bats (THAPA, S 2010.05.15: 29). IDENTITY: The so-called Manjushri Cave (THAPA, S 2010.05.15: 29) is probably one of the cave entrances of the –>Chakratirtha - Parahamsa Gufa. ETYMOLOGY: The mythological Bodhisattwa Manjushri is the good man who cared to split the mountain Kotwal (Kotwaldar), thus cutting the Chobar gorge which drained the palaeo-lake Hrad Nag that flooded the Kathmandu Vale (note 1). SITUATION: THAPA, S (2010.05.15: 29) located Manjushree Cave not only in an unspecified setting somewhere in the vicinity of the Chobar gorge (note 2) and above one or the other banks of the Bagmati River but also in an unidentified spatial relations to the cave entrances of –>Bagh Cave, Chobar, –>Barahi Cave, Chobar, and –>Cave, Chobar. CAVE LIFE: THAPA, S (2010.05.15: 29) relates to bat (Chiroptera) and notices two adult males (Bagh Cave, Chobhar) and one adult male (Manjushree Cave, Chobhar) of Hipposideros cineraceus Blyth 1853: More than a hundred individuals were estimated during their flight observation at entrances of four caves; Bagh cave, Naya cave, Manjushree cave and Barahi cave. … The flight emergence was noted 17:45 in the evening. Two males were mist netted during 17:42 and 17:50 one after another at the entrance of Bagh Cave, Chobhar on December 31, 2009. It was netted at an entrance of the Manjushree cave at 19:15 PM on September 16, 2008.