Deep In Andhra Forest, Treasure Trove Of Rock Work, Inscriptions

Hyderabad:

Historic inscriptions — 800 to 2000 years previous – have been found at Kadapa’s Lankkamala Reserve Forest in Andhra Pradesh, in what’s being stated to the most important archaeological discover in latest occasions. The survey by the Archaeological Survey of India additionally discovered rock artwork regarded as from the megalithic interval.

The survey led to the invention of three rock shelters. Certainly one of these contained gorgeous prehistoric work depicting animals, geometric patterns, and human figures, officers stated. 

The work, relationship again to the Megalithic (Iron Age) and early historic intervals (2500 BCE-2nd century CE), have been created utilizing pure supplies like pink ochre, kaolin, animal fats, and crushed bones.

The rock inscriptions, relationship between 4th and sixteenth Century CE, recommend that Lankamala was a serious Shaivite pilgrim middle often visited by devotees from north India.

The survey within the rugged terrain of Nityapujakona, Akkadevatala Konda and Bandigani Chella  positioned South of Srisailam, passed off between February 27 and March 1, and regarded into practically 30 inscriptions within the reserve forest.

The scripts of the inscriptions have been Brahmi (4th Century CE), Shell (sixth Century CE), Nagari (Sanskrit) and Telugu characters among the many inscriptions, stated Ok Munirathnam, the chief of the survey.

“It is a landmark discovery within the ASI’s historical past. It helps us confirm the pilgrimage routes which even North Indians took. It reveals how the pilgrimage centre of the Shaivite area shifted from right here to Srisailam beginning within the 4th Century,” he added.

Describing the discoveries, he stated the native Forest Vary Officer despatched them footage, after which the ASI wrote to Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan,

“We then launched into an arduous trek going up 1000’s of toes on steep hills to repeat the inscriptions by way of the damaging forests,” stated Mr Munirathnam. 

Archaeologists stated the texts present worthwhile insights into the area’s previous, shedding gentle on its historical past, tradition, and traditions.