GAURISHANKAR GUPHA (Dayal 1906)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified item, either a man-made cave temple (rock-cut chamber used for religious purposes) or natural sacred cave (temple cave). SITUATION: On the top of the hill at Umga, a village about 2.5 km west of the Madanpur (note 1) on the National Highway NH2 (Grand Trunk Road). CULTURAL HISTORY: For a few years past (since the discovery of an image of Sri Gaurishankara in a cave on the top of it, this peak has been named Gaurishankara Hill. […] The images of the gods, the consecration of whose temples is mentioned in this inscription [note 2], are still seen, some lying in or near the ruined temples, and others placed in a cavern on the top of the hill (DAYAL, P 1906: 23). The image of Sri Gaurishankara (statue) in the –>Gaurishankar Gupha on Umga hill resembles the figure of Gaurishankara lying in the cave of –>Sita-Thapa in the Sandhail hill one (DAYAL, P 1906: 26).An unspecified item, either a man-made cave temple (rock-cut chamber used for religious purposes) or natural sacred cave (temple cave). SITUATION: On the top of the hill at Umga, a village about 2.5 km west of the Madanpur (note 1) on the National Highway NH2 (Grand Trunk Road). CULTURAL HISTORY: For a few years past (since the discovery of an image of Sri Gaurishankara in a cave on the top of it, this peak has been named Gaurishankara Hill. […] The images of the gods, the consecration of whose temples is mentioned in this inscription [note 2], are still seen, some lying in or near the ruined temples, and others placed in a cavern on the top of the hill (DAYAL, P 1906: 23). The image of Sri Gaurishankara (statue) in the –>Gaurishankar Gupha on Umga hill resembles the figure of Gaurishankara lying in the cave of –>Sita-Thapa in the Sandhail hill one (DAYAL, P 1906: 26).