PARASAR CAVE, Damauli

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified characteristics) is said to give access to an unidentified cave (perhaps a sacred temple cave) with not only surveyable and identifiable but also visible bats. ETYMOLOGY: The meaning and origin of the cave name Parasar Cave (KARKI, L 2011: 32) has not yet been discovered but we have not only the legendary Hindu sage Parasar (note 1) but also Parasumara -- Rama with the axe (LONELY PLANET, India 2005: 1110), the sixth incarnation of Vishnu (note 2). SITUATION: Unknown. At an unspecified location somewhere in the Tanahun district (note 3). CAVE LIFE - bats (Chiroptera): In one way or another, visual encounter surveyes had been conducted and bats had been identified roosting in … Byas Cave [i.e. –>Vyasa Gupha, Damauli], Siddha Cave Bimalnagar, Parasar Cave, Millenium Cave, [and] Siddha Cave Bhanumate (KARKI, L 2011: 32).An unspecified cave entrance (unidentified shape, unidentified dimensions, unidentified orientation, unidentified characteristics) is said to give access to an unidentified cave (perhaps a sacred temple cave) with not only surveyable and identifiable but also visible bats. ETYMOLOGY: The meaning and origin of the cave name Parasar Cave (KARKI, L 2011: 32) has not yet been discovered but we have not only the legendary Hindu sage Parasar (note 1) but also Parasumara -- Rama with the axe (LONELY PLANET, India 2005: 1110), the sixth incarnation of Vishnu (note 2). SITUATION: Unknown. At an unspecified location somewhere in the Tanahun district (note 3). CAVE LIFE - bats (Chiroptera): In one way or another, visual encounter surveyes had been conducted and bats had been identified roosting in … Byas Cave [i.e. –>Vyasa Gupha, Damauli], Siddha Cave Bimalnagar, Parasar Cave, Millenium Cave, [and] Siddha Cave Bhanumate (KARKI, L 2011: 32).