PUTLI KA DATA SHELTERS

(Bijawar Tahsil - IN)
24.583300,79.650000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 07/05/2016

Four rock shelters with cave paintings (rock art) reported MATHUR (1953: 96-97) as one of two clusters of rock shelters (note 1). Compare –>Ponr ka Data, the Ponr ka Dota of GOSH (1956: 69). SITUATION: The two clusters are about »half a mile« (about 800 m) apart from each other but both lie on the northern face of a Vindhyan (Semri) Sandstone outcropping on the summit of a 500 m high hill (note 2) that lies at an unspecified distance south-east of a Deora village (note 3) in the Bijawar area of Chhatarpur district (note 4) in what once had been the »Vindhya Pradesh.« CAVE DESCRIPTION (MATHUR 1953: 96-97): »The shelters are formed mainly of rock ledges with overhanging roofs. There are some cave-like shelters also, but they are not deep.« CULTURAL HISTORY - rock art: The mostly red and ocassionally white paintings depict humans in action, dear, bullocks, horses or mules, dogs (?), a fish and a bird. Compare –>Ponr ka Dota shelters.

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 07/05/2016

NOTE 1: There are several rock shelters in the area, but rock art (paintings) have been found in only six of them. Four of the painted shelters lie in the western group which is locally called Ponr-ka-Data (the Ponr-ka-Dota of GHOSH 1956: 69) and the other, the eastern group of two rock shelters »Putli-ka-Data« (MATHUR 1953: 96) or »Putri-ka-Dota« (GHOSH 1956: 69). NOTE 2: Neither MATHUR (1953) nor GOSH (1956) risk caring to mention the name of this hill. Survey of India sheet 54-P/10 (edition 1977) shows south-east of Deora (Bijawar) one Muhar Pahar at N24° 34'30': E079°40'30": 529 m asl and a Changwa Pahar at N24° 33'45': E079°38'15": 489 m asl. NOTE 3: Deora N24° 35'15': E079°39'00": 337 m asl (Survey of India sheet 54-P/10 edition 1977) in Bijawar tahsil, Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh (till 1956 A.D. Vindhya Pradesh). NOTE 4: GOSH (1956: 69) place the »Ponr-ka-Dota« shelters near a Deora in Sagar district.

Documents

Bibliography 07/05/2016
  • Gosh, A K 1956; Mathur, S M 1953.

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0PONR KA DATA SHELTERS
10.1JATASHANKAR, Bijawar
13.1BIJAWAR CAVE DWELLING (aa -)
25.3KUWA PAHAR, Bijawar
30.9BHARWANI CAVE
31.2RANIKHERA CAVE 1
31.2RANIKHERA CAVE 2
31.2RANIKHERA CAVE 3
31.2PUKHARIA CAVE