MOHRA MURADU (Cave at)

ٹیکسلا (تحصیل ٹیکسلا - PK)
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Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

A cave entrance (11 m wide, 2 m high) giving access to an estimated 150 m of cave passages is said to have been found near Mohra Muradu site at Taxila (note 1) or behind Mohra Maudu [sic!] Monastery (note 2) at Taxila (note 3). SITUATION: Beneath the obvious cliff face at the summit of an unidentified hill, which lies in an unspecified direction behind the ancient site of the Mohra Moradu Monastery, Taxila, from where a foot path passes by the cave. CAVE DESCRIPTION: From the large entrance (11 m wide, 2 m high) the passage drops steeply down into a large (30 m by 30 m wide, 20 m high) chamber that is home to a colony of bats. A relatively small cave passage under the north east wall of the chamber can be followed for an estimated 15 m whilst on the south-west side of the chamber an undefined cave passage descends through boulders for an estimated 40 m to reach a small bouldery chamber at the furthest reached point of the known part of the cave where the initials -MSG 1984- are painte on the roof along with the word -END-. CAVE POTENTIAL: Prospects for further extension are limited (Brooks, S J 1997 Mss: Pakistan Cave Database) but dilation will make this cave wider, larger, or more open. CAVE LIFE: Bats (Chiroptera). on the roof along with the word -END-. CAVE POTENTIAL: Prospects for further extension are limited (Brooks, S J 1997 Mss: Pakistan Cave Database) but dilation will make this cave wider, larger, or more open. CAVE LIFE: Bats (Chiroptera).

Documents

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Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1946: V. D. Krishnaswamy (1946.07.03 Mss) told E. Aubrey Glennie about a known and explored but not investigated cave near Mohra Moradu. 1994: Simon J. Brooks & friends visited Mohra Maudu [sic!] and 'surveyed' 148 m (tape spotter standards) of survey length without any cave plan whatsoever. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Cavités proche

Distance (km)NomLongueur (m)Profondeur (m)
2.1AA CAVE, Taxila hillside
2.7INDRASALA GUHA, Peshawar Museum
4.3KALAWAN, Margala, 1st (Cave near)
4.3KALAWAN, Margala, 2nd (Cave at)
4.3KALAWAN, Margala, 3rd (Cave at)
7.3ASTRIALIA (Caves at)
7.6ALLAHDITTA CAVE
8.6KHANPUR (Wilson 1976) (Caves at)
13.4BHAMALA, Taxila (Caves at)