TAPKESHWAR CAVE (Orange painted)

Dehradun (Dehradun - IN)
30.316700,78.033300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A modified natural cave or rock shelter is coated with orange coloured enamel (compare the blue painted cave at –>Tapkeshwar) and used by saddhus (PRICE 1988b: 32). SITUATION: Not only in an unspecified spatial relation to the orange painted –>Tapkeshwar Cave but also to the Tapkeshwar Mahadev mandir (temple) in the Garhi cantonment above the south-eastern (orographically left) bank of the Tons Nadi (river) and about 5 km in a direct line approximately north-west from the clock tower at Dehra Dun (N30°19': E078°02': 700 m asl).

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History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0TAPKESHWAR CAVE (Blue painted)
3.7GUCHHU PANI
11.1VAISHNO DEVI GUFA, Dehra Dun
12.0SAHASTRA DHARA, Dehra Dun
12.1SHIVA, Dehra Dun: Sahastra Dhara (Cave of)
12.1Sahastradhara (Cave near) (Craven 1969)
12.1SAHASTRADHARA CAVES
13.8DOON VIEW CAVE
15.6Camel's Back Cave (Glennie 1939) [Doon View Cave 3]