Tri State Trip - Day 9 - Hampi - Stone Age Paintings
In the middle of the river, you can see a coconut like tree. Near the white building. It is Nava Brindavan.
Nava Brindavan means, nine Rishis/Yatis Took Jeeva Samdhi. Vyasaraya, Jitendra, Yogaraja thirthas Nine Yatis took Jeeva Samadhi here. You can go there by boat.
This is Koppal district. that side of river Bellary, Vijayanagara District. New district. This is Koppal district. Here they cultivate Sona Masuri rice.
Now they are harvesting. Yes. They are harvesting. Krishnadevaraya family is still live here. You can see the statue of Krishandevaraya. His family is still here. We are going to Durga Devi Devasthan.
Duraga Devi temple. Small temple is there now on the hill. They are expanding it now. Restoring it. At that time in Vijayanagara They used to worship this Goddess before going to war. Slightly ahead of this temple, you can see Vali cave.
Vali cave or Bali cave. To kill a demon, Vali goes into a cave. He tells Sugriv if I don't come by evening, close the opening. We are going to see the cave. Before Durga Devi temple, we get Hanuman temple.
Hanuman, Anjaneya, Bhajarangbali. They are doing puja here. Swamiji arranging for puja. Mant devotees visit this place. So, they are decorating the idol. Many devotees for fulfilling their wishes tied coconut to the tree. Wrapped in a clothe.
Belief is that if their wish is fulfilled the coconut falls down on its own. Its peepal tree. This is an old fort. In case of war to protect themselves, Royal family and others used to stay here on the hill. It is made for protecting them from Bahamani kingdom. From top of the fort soldiers can attack the enemy with arrows and spears.
On the top small holes are there. From those holes, They used to pour hot oil on the climbers. The climber's body burns, and they fall down and dead. It was unclimbable. That is why those holes were made. They used to pour hot oil from those holes.
See this rock how it is standing. Big at bottom, middle small, then big and top small. These are rock formation. In Hampi you can see many rock formations like this.
They are known as balance stone. They are standing with zero gravity. That is wonder of nature. You can see the small tree there.
Red sandalwood tree. Here you get sandalwood tree in the forest. You can see big wells here. They dug wells in the hills for water. They dug up to bottom of the hill. They dug many wells to store the water.
We are in the middle of the hill. they dug well in middle of the hill. Presently it is modernised. You can see the rods, pipes etc. The rainwater goes inside and can be used.
They have done lot of plantation. They are using the water from the well with help of pumps. Now we are at Vali cave.
One gate is here to go inside. This big stone is dangling here. One stone is dangling between two stones. You feel that it may fall any time.
But it is like this from thousands of years. See this beautiful rock formation. You can see the cave. This is vali cave. We are going inside. You can see how the cave is.
See how it is. Two, three people are coming out from the cave. Here you have to bend your head. The rock formation here.
These are naturally formed. This big stone closed the cave path. In Ramayana's Kishkindha Kand This Vali cave is mentioned. This is the cave where Vali went to kill the demon. Cave's entrance closed. Vali told his brother Sugriv to close the door, if he does not return by evening.
When Vali starts fighting, there were loud noises. Sugriv thinks Vali is having trouble. Sugriv closes the door with this big stone. When Vali kills the demon he tries to come out, but the entrance was closed. He comes out from different came and different path.
He became angry. Thinking he was dead, they install Sugriv as king. So, he banishes Sugriv. Sugriv scared that his brother may kill him. From here he goes to the other side of river.
And takes shelter in a cave on Matanga hill. He waits there till Rama comes. With help of Rama he kills Vali.
It is near Chintamani area. There is Pattaka Shila on Malyavant hill. They stayed for four months.
They lived there for four months. Now vehicles can there. There it is difficult keep balance. It is not permitted area. There is one small temple with stone on top.
See the rock formation. Now we are at Pampa Sarovar. Brahma created five Sarovars. One of those is Pampa Sarovar.
It is very old. You think big like Manasa Sarovar. But it is not as you imagine. It looks like Kalyani, water tank. it is modernised and restored. In old one Lotuses were there.
To maintain it properly, they restored it. It is beautifully made. Here one Vijaya Lami temple is there. this name came due to victories and Vijayanagara. Puja is offered here, and it was restored.
Here one crane is working. There was one mantap and cave were there. It is known as Shabari Ashram. Shabari was here to feed fruits to Rama. When Rama came here Shabari fed him Bhore fruit.
Vijaya Laxmi temple. They are ready to decorate the Goddess. Now we are going to Anjanadri hill. Hanuman's birthplace. See the hill there.
See the crowd here. Due to Saturday, huge crowd is there. See the hills and crowd. Hanuman's birthplace. In Ramayan's Kiskkinda Kand Hanuman's birthplace is mentioned. Many devotees are there. It is Saturday in Kartik month. So, huge rush.
We are at the bottom. We will try to climb the hill. Not sure. Let's try. At the time of sunrise, it is red in colour. thinking it for fruit to eat it Hanuman jumps from this hill.
That thing was happened here. they are taking offerings to God from here. Old bridge of Vijayanagara time to cross the river.
Small stones piled one on the top of one. Lagori stone. Yes, the game is known as Lagori. Let us park on the upper side. This side is full water.
We are gone if any vehicle comes this way. You have to honk the horn for that. This beautiful lake is Sanapur lake. beautiful lake. Here Coracle ride, boating is available.
This is lake and this is river. This dried paddy from truck goes to mill. After polishing First, they remove the husk. Another fine layer that is raw rice. They remove that also.
Now we are going to see the rock paintings. We have to go inside. It is a restricted private area. Nobody is allowed. Due our guide's influence we could go. This area is known as Anegundi. These rock paintings are 15,000 to 20,000 years old. Unbelievable.
They are under lock and key. This stone formation is about 30,000 years old. We go from here with him. Nobody is allowed here. Luckily, we met him. Othrwise, we have to turn back and go. Presently we are going to rock paintings.
Beautiful rock paintings. You can see rock painting by Adimanav (stone age people). Adimanav used stay in the hills. When we came here all animals gone inside.
backside is thick forest. Animals are there in this jungle. We cur the jungle and made our homes.
those animals went into hill. We occupied their land. Ancient rock animal paintings.
here one and here one. You see the upper part, snake drawing. You can see mor drawing here.
Beautiful painting at that time. Bid snake drawing. The tail and head part. How many years back? It is time of Adimanav.
it is more than 15,000 BC. More drawings are here. you can see drawings of Adimanav hunting animals. Beautiful paintings. We have to protect them. What ate those trees? Pineapple! Oh! yes dates.
Old temple. Middle of nowhere. Man;s head looks like wearing a hat. Srinivas- Hampi Guide- 9900727256 will give his number here. Name is Srinivas. He showed us everything patiently. We lost patients but not him.
Excellent man. Do try him. Whenever you visit contact him. I have given his number. Thank yu.
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