Edurla Gavi
15.600000,78.333300
Description
A north-facing cave entrance (2.5 m high and 15 m wide) narrows down to a natural gate (1.5 m wide, 1.3 m high) leading into a roundish chamber (about 35 m wide, up to 8 m high) with a flat ceiling above a floor (with a central depression) consisting of fallens slabs and soil. SITUATION (Reddy 1984.07.25 Mss): »Edurla Gavi [note 1] … cave is in a rocky terrain. It is 10 km walk over the rocky hill [possibly in the approximate west-northwest] from road side village Koratamaddi [note 2], 10 miles [read: about 8 miles or 13 km along the road north-northwest] from Nandyal town [note 3], Kurnool district, by bus.« CAVE DESCRIPTION (Reddy 1984.07.25 Mss): »The roof is flat and almost horizontal and is solid rock while the floor is part of earth around which thick sheets of slab and broken boulders are found in continuity. … The stone is of calcite [read: limestone] which is being used for cement manufacturing.« CAVE POTENTIAL - Imaginative speleography: M. Narayana Reddy (1984.07.25 Mss) was told of a what seems to be a fabulous tunnel which is required to complete the picture of a full fledged cave: »It is said, near about station 5 [in the distal south corner of the cave, some 60 m opposite across the cave entrance] existed a 2 m high continuity of the cave 20 years back and it was artificially blocked by a wall to prevent people entering it and get lost. S I visited second time with the informer. According to him, who himself with some others had pur the barrier across, the roof must have collapsed to the point to conceal even that wall.«
NOTE 1: The Telugu numeral "edu" means »seven« and the noun "urla" (plural of "uru" = village) means »villages« (Reddy 1984.07.25 Mss). The village »Edurla« (Reddy 1984.07.25 Mss) is much suspected to correspond to the »Undutla 376« near N15°36': E78°20': 376 m asl on the Survey of India sheet 57-i/06 (edition 1982) near the head of a south-east running stream »Ura Sela« descending in a remarkably straight line east by south-east from the ridge of the »Erra Malla Hills« to the right (western) bank of the Kunderu. NOTE 2: »Koratamaddi« (Reddy 1984.07.25 Mss) is indicated as »Koratamaddu« on AMS sheet ND44-01 (U502 series, 1956 edition) but »Koratamaddi« near N15°34'30”: E78°6'30”: 223 m asl on the Survey of India sheet 57-i/06 (1982 edition) between kilometers 10 and 11 north of Nandyal. NOTE 3: Nandyal (N15°29': E78°29' (nima.mil/geonames accessed 16.11.2003) on AMS sheet ND44-01 Kurnool (U502 series, 1956 edition) and on the India Road Atlas (Eicher Goodearth 2006: 108 C1).
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| Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.3 | GORAKALLU BOREHOLE 7 GPH | ||
| 9.3 | GORAKALLU BOREHOLE 8 | ||
| 12.9 | KRISHNAMMAKONA CAVE 5 | ||
| 13.2 | PEDDA SIDDHULU CAVE | ||
| 13.9 | KRISHNAMMAKONA CAVE (Cammiade 1927) | ||
| 14.8 | KRISHNAMMAKONA CAVE 2 | ||
| 14.8 | KRISHNAMMAKONA CAVE 3 | ||
| 14.8 | KRISHNAMMAKONA CAVE 4 | ||
| 14.9 | KRISHNAMMAKONA CAVE 1 |