MATRIKAS, Sundarijal (Cave of the)

कागेश्वरी मनोहरा नगरपालिका (काठमाडौं - NP)
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A small temple cave (note 1), rather a rock shelter, sacred to the -ashta matrikas- (a group of mother goddesses) represented by stones (WIESNER 1976: 242), consists of a horizontally protruding triangular slab of stone sheltering an area of four by four metres. SITUATION: This cave of the matrikas (matrka) lies near Sundarijal at the foot of Shivapuri Dara, the hill where the trek to Helambu starts, and immediately above the banks of the juvenile Bagmati river (which has shaped picturesque erosion forms into the phyllitic schists here) and a short distance below the confluence with the Bagmati but above the -falls- marked on Schneider's Kathmandu Valley map.A small temple cave (note 1), rather a rock shelter, sacred to the -ashta matrikas- (a group of mother goddesses) represented by stones (WIESNER 1976: 242), consists of a horizontally protruding triangular slab of stone sheltering an area of four by four metres. SITUATION: This cave of the matrikas (matrka) lies near Sundarijal at the foot of Shivapuri Dara, the hill where the trek to Helambu starts, and immediately above the banks of the juvenile Bagmati river (which has shaped picturesque erosion forms into the phyllitic schists here) and a short distance below the confluence with the Bagmati but above the -falls- marked on Schneider's Kathmandu Valley map.

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History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
2.1SUNDARIJAL TUNNEL
3.5GUPTESHWAR CAVE, Gokarna
4.3TARAGIRI (Cave on)
4.4SUNTAKHAN GUPHA
4.6SANKHU CAVE 1st
4.6SANKHU CAVE 2nd
4.6SANKHU CAVE 3rd
4.6SANKHU CAVE 4th
4.6SANKHU CAVE 5th