NIAMRAJA's CAVE

(Tikiri - IN)
19.166700,83.166700
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/04/2016

A sacred but otherwise unspecified »Niamraja's Cave« (SCHNEPEL 1993), which may consist of a natural sacred cave (temple cave) or of a rock-cut chamber used for religious purposes (man-made cave temple), has been described as a site where Durga rites (note 1) are performed (note 2). IDENTITY: Niamraja's Cave (SCHNEPEL 1993) may be identical --but this is mere guesswork-- with the –>Devagiri Cave (Kalyasinghpur) about 25 km or 30 km in a direct line east of Bissamcuttack (N19°31': E083°31'). SITUATION: At an unspecified location somewhere in the vicinity of Bissamcuttack (N19°31': E083°31').

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 28/04/2016

NOTE 1: Durga, literally 'inaccessible', is »a form of Shiva's wife, Devi, a beautiful, fierce women riding a tiger; a major goddess of the Shakti sect« (LONELY PLANET, India 2005 glossary: 1107). Durga is the terrible, frightening aspect of the mother goddess Kali (DEVI MAHATMYA, circa 550, chapter 11; KINSLEY 1986 edited 1987: 99, 107; SOMADEVA circa 1100; VAKPATIRAJA, ca. 700: Gaudavaho, Verses 285-337), the untamed and unmarried version of Devi, (The) Goddess, the supreme goddess manifested (VINDHYA MAHATMYA, s.a., circa 1810?; HUMES 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996 edited 1998). NOTE 2: Manfred Moser (Regensburg, 1998 personal correspondence) forwarded the reference to SCHNEPEL (1993).

Documents

Bibliography 28/04/2016
  • Schnepel, Burkhard 1993.

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
40.3DEVAGIRI, Kalyasinghpur (Cave on the)
140.8MOHURI KALUA CAVE
184.4SHAILODBHAVA (Cave of)
186.3CHANDRAPIDA (Cave of)
229.5PANDURANGA SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE
280.5PANDAVA CAVE, Khordha
282.8VIKRAMKHOL SHELTER
300.0GANESH GUMPHA, Khandgiri - Udayagiri
300.0HATHIGUMPHA, Khandgiri - Udayagiri (Chota)