LONARKAVU ROCK-CUT CAVES

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Unidentified Lonarkavu Rock-cut Caves (please respect the honorific plural) seem(s) to consist of a man-made monolithic pit temple in the open air: most likely focussing on a garbha griha, a tiny and sacred interior cell. LONELY PLANET, Kerala (2000: 227) reports from Lonarkavu Temple … Rock cut caves which seem to exist more in mythology than in reality --let us know if you find them and places the item at a travelling distance of about 5 km along a road in an unspecified direction from Vadarka (note 1), which itself lies 20 km south of Mahe (N11°42': E075°32', Everest 1830), from where it may be reached by bus or train. The pious or archaeologically relevant item is possibly somehow ideologically associated with the giant demon Lonasur or with the –>Lonar Cave in Berar (Maharashtra, Buldana / Bhuldana district).Unidentified Lonarkavu Rock-cut Caves (please respect the honorific plural) seem(s) to consist of a man-made monolithic pit temple in the open air: most likely focussing on a garbha griha, a tiny and sacred interior cell. LONELY PLANET, Kerala (2000: 227) reports from Lonarkavu Temple … Rock cut caves which seem to exist more in mythology than in reality --let us know if you find them and places the item at a travelling distance of about 5 km along a road in an unspecified direction from Vadarka (note 1), which itself lies 20 km south of Mahe (N11°42': E075°32', Everest 1830), from where it may be reached by bus or train. The pious or archaeologically relevant item is possibly somehow ideologically associated with the giant demon Lonasur or with the –>Lonar Cave in Berar (Maharashtra, Buldana / Bhuldana district).