BUDAGAVI SHELTER 1

(Uravakonda - IN)
14.972500,77.238300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 24/03/2016

On the hill Pedda Konda west of Budagavi / Buddhagavi village, Uravakonda taluka, Anantapur district … »are four rock shelters close to each other with paintings and bruisings on their walls and ceilings. Rock Shelter 1 is located to the right of the cave facing west. It measures 15 m x 20 m, and provides a shaded area of roughly 2 m all around it. Only two complete figures are visible from among the traces of several paintings. One of these is an incomplete figure of an animal which looks like a deer with its head turned backwards. It is done in flatwash …« (CHANDRAMOULI, N. 1991: 72). The rock art is in red.

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Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0BUDA GAVI
0.0BUDAGAVI SHELTER 2
0.0BUDAGAVI SHELTER 3
0.0BUDAGAVI SHELTER 4
16.5PENNA AHOBILAM
45.3GOOTY CAVERN (Newbold 1845)
62.4PANCHALINGALASWAMI GUHA, Pasumanpalli
64.7GOPAMA GAVI
65.3KURUVA BALI GAVI