PAMPASAROVAR SHELTER

(Gangavati taluku - IN)
15.354200,76.477200
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

No satisfying local name (Gavi Pampa?) is known to designate a natural sacred rock shelter and cult spot associated with the Hindu goddess -Durga- (personal -communication- in Kannada language) with a peasant, 01 March 2004), which lies on the way to the –>Pampasarovar Caves and on the left-hand side of the road but about four vertical metres up the rocky flank of a hill built up of gravitationally dislocated granite boulders. CAVE DESCRIPTION: The approximately 3 or 4 m wide and high shelter covers an inclined, stony area of about 5 or 6 square metres. It focuses on a central boulder with one almost plane, upright and painted surface (about 2 m wide and high), which, facing west-north-west (300°) and the road below, is flanked on its left and right by two larger boulders that support a third, wedged one that functions as roof. CULTURAL HISTORY - rock art: The paintings on a white washed back ground consist of five egg-shaped dots, about 15 by 20 large and horizontally striped in crimon and white. These are quite irregularly distributed on kind of a herald-shaped background (resembling a letter -U- closed at the top and then vertically mirrored, up to 60 cm wide and close to a metre high) surrounded by ochre coloured frame (approximately 10 cm wide) from which two bands (again in ochre and about 10 cm broad) swing of counter-clockwise, resulting in kind of a half-breed between spiral and swastika. HUMAN USE: An annual (?) religious event took place on 3rd March 2004, on the evening of half-moon day, when the dark half of the month ended and the bright half began.

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018

Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2004.03.01: H. D. Gebauer visited, explored, photographed and sketched. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
0.0PAMPASAROVAR CAVES
0.7RANGANATHA SWAMI (Sri Gavi)
1.2SABARI, Pampasarovar (Cave of)
1.2PARVATI, Pampasarovar (Cave of)
1.8SUGRIVA CAVE, Hampi
1.9SUGRIVA CAVE, Hampi, 2nd
1.9SUGRIVA CAVE, Hampi 3
2.1NIGONDIN RIVER'S SIDE (Cave at)
2.3Hampi-Vittala Tunnel