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Stone Age cave paintings and inscription found in Gangavathi
Koppal: Stone Age cave paintings and an inscription were found in Kattekallu hill near HG Ramulu Nagar on Koppal Road in Gangavathi taluk. These were discovered by a team led by researchers Dr Sharanabasappa Kolkar, Manjunath Doddamani, Chandrashekhar Kumbar, and Nagaraj Shivapur.
Kolkar told TOI that Kattekallu hill is located one km from the Gali Durgamma Temple on the Gangavathi-Koppal road. "At the foot of this hill, there is a 17th-century Kannada inscription in a rock shelter facing south. And in another shelter at the top of the hill, there are paintings created by early humans. The inscription is in five lines and is written with images of the sun, moon, dwainama, and bow and arrow. The inscription talks about the donation of 22 Khanduga land by Chinnayaka for the worship of Lord Ramnath.
The inscription ends with Jayatu Mastu. There are many errors in the inscription," he added.
"Further study will be conducted to find out who the Ramnath God and Chinnayaka are according to the inscription. The vast shelter at the top of the hill was a temporary residence of primitive man, and several pictures are painted in red on its roof. There are pictures of couples holding hands, pictures of many symbols, and pictures of a man standing on the other side.
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From the style of the pictures, these belong to the Copper Age Neolithic period of 3,000 years ago.
On the cleft rock adjacent to this shelter, there are cup marks made in a row. If you hit these with a piece of stone, a kind of sound is emitted. From this, it can be inferred that the cave was inhabited by the pastoral people of the Stone Age, who left their cattle to graze in the meadows in front of the hill and watched from the cave, making sounds with stones and drawing pictures for their entertainment," he further said.
"Hundreds of cave paintings have already been found in seven hills, including Hire Benakal of the Gangavathi region, and the life and culture of the primitive people of Karnataka are studied , and these paintings are also helpful in complementing the same," he said.
