Pandi Gawi

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A rift cave of unspecified dimensions (note 1), called Pandi Gawi by native guides in 1844 in commemoration of the Pandava brothers and hence possibly held sacred (note 2), recorded the explorer Captain T.J. NEWBOLD, T J (1845b: 409) from a landscape characterised by sandstone pinnacles (sandstone karst towers?) where precipitous masses of sandstone divided by fissures into vertical pinnacles, assimilating ruins, and which are occasionally undermined by the force of the monsoon freshes and precipitated into the bed of the river. […] The sandstone strata forming the precipices on each side exhibit no marks of dislocation or violent disturbance. They dip rarely above 10° towards the east and north of east, and the undisturbed dip of the beds can be traced from one side to the other. CAVE DESCRIPTION: Smaller parallel fissures are observable in the cliffs on each side, one of which has formed the cave called by the native guides Pandi Gawi. SITUATION: At about the middle of the Pass of Gndicotta (note 3) and under the walls of the fortress of Gandikota (note 4) above the southern bank of Penneru River. The fort lies about 8 km approximately north-east of Gandluru (N14°47'30-: E078°13' on AMS sheet ND44-05 Cuddapah, U502 series, 1956 edition), which itself lies at a travelling distance of 17 miles / 27 km approximately south-east from Tadpatri (N14°55': E078°01') on the road to Cuddapah (Kadapa, N14°28': E078°49'), 47 miles / 76 km away.A rift cave of unspecified dimensions (note 1), called Pandi Gawi by native guides in 1844 in commemoration of the Pandava brothers and hence possibly held sacred (note 2), recorded the explorer Captain T.J. NEWBOLD, T J (1845b: 409) from a landscape characterised by sandstone pinnacles (sandstone karst towers?) where precipitous masses of sandstone divided by fissures into vertical pinnacles, assimilating ruins, and which are occasionally undermined by the force of the monsoon freshes and precipitated into the bed of the river. […] The sandstone strata forming the precipices on each side exhibit no marks of dislocation or violent disturbance. They dip rarely above 10° towards the east and north of east, and the undisturbed dip of the beds can be traced from one side to the other. CAVE DESCRIPTION: Smaller parallel fissures are observable in the cliffs on each side, one of which has formed the cave called by the native guides Pandi Gawi. SITUATION: At about the middle of the Pass of Gndicotta (note 3) and under the walls of the fortress of Gandikota (note 4) above the southern bank of Penneru River. The fort lies about 8 km approximately north-east of Gandluru (N14°47'30-: E078°13' on AMS sheet ND44-05 Cuddapah, U502 series, 1956 edition), which itself lies at a travelling distance of 17 miles / 27 km approximately south-east from Tadpatri (N14°55': E078°01') on the road to Cuddapah (Kadapa, N14°28': E078°49'), 47 miles / 76 km away.