BHAIRAVESHWARA SHIKARA (Cave at)

(Kumata taluk - IN)
14.590600,74.567500
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A less than a metre wide but high, rift-shaped cave entrance leads to a dark, bat infested cave passage leading to a second entrance and perched viewpoint. CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: A series of rock caves (consider a honourific plural) represent a bat infested labyrinth (KAMATH 2001). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2: A relatively small cave-like hole which leads the way inside the rock where one can venture into this small opening by crawling. Inside there is a new world of rocks and one can climb up to about half the distance to get a delightful view (southnexus.com accessed 2002.11.21). SITUATION: Inside the Bhairaveshwara Shikara (karst tower) in the –>Bhairav kshetra (Yana) and, according to KAMATH (2001) to the left (facing the main temple?) where the cave is reached by an about 200 m long, small, and thorny footpath. CAVE LIFE: KAMATH (2001) noted bats (Chiroptera).

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Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 2002.12.11: H. D. Gebauer peeped but wearing travelling clothes was far too under-equipped to squeeze up in bat shit. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
0.1SHIVA, Yana (Cave of)
0.1CHANDIKA GUWA, Yana
0.4MOHINI SHIKARA, Yana (Cave at)
0.4MOHINI SHIKARA SHELTER, Yana
44.8HALESIDDA, Wadehakli (Cave of the)
44.8BAVALIHAKKI CAVE
45.2RUDRAKSHI MANTAPA GAVI
45.3AKKA NAGAMMA GAVI
45.3AKALA GAVI, Ulvi