Sanganakllu

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Sanganakallu rock art

Sanganakallu rock art

Sangankallu Rock Art

Today 's mechanical world, everyone are busy in their own works from morning to till late night and people works in night's to till morning. In their busy schedule they find difficulty to spent time with their family, with their relatives and to no time to join in celebration of our festivals and customs. Just think where is the time for them to think about our art, culture  customs etc.                             
Sanganakallu not for civilization, paintings, rock music, architecture, weapons manufacturing factories etc.
Sanganakallu is nearly 5km from Bellary city  m.id eastern  Karnataka, it is an outcrop of granite hills of various sizes this hill are b/t sanganakallu and kappagallu but it is very near to sanganakallu. As per the study, here we can find civilization,it means,as we know civilization means not living  together it is art of living, preparations for smooth going  lifestyle. Civilization is in 4hills, these  hills are used for specific purpose and all the four  hills are at the four  corner to the site.
There are 4hills in this site  those are named as follows
1. Sannarasamma Gudda
2. Sadashiva Gudda
3. Chaudamma Gudda
4. Hire  Gudda 

1. Sannarasamma Gudda :
Sannarasamma Gudda  is lo South -West  of the site, this hill is also called Factory hill here they manufacture stone weapons these weapons are used to kill animals and other purposes, initially they manufacture weapons for their use only but later they started manufacturing more and started supplying to the others. They have more aesthetic sense they use to decorate  themselves with chains, necklace, earrings, bangles etc. All these are made by stone's  of animals, terracotta etc. In different shapes of beads like round solid  bead, square  solid,cylinder pipes, square pipes etc. They wants to look attract or to improve  their beauty  sense.

2. Sadashiva Gudda:
                            sadashiva hill is located towards  North- East corner of the site , here we can find their house's hear by hill and they lived in the hill., houses built near this hill are cone shaped and build on the stone are kept in circular manner. Random shaped stone are arranged in circle and these stones are kept on one feet height ground above the normal ground.long wooden bars are used to built these huts and these are in cone shape, one end of the wooden bar are joined at top and other end are buried in ground.

3. Chaudamma Gudda:

Located south  corner of the heritage site here in this hill we can find blue print of entire site map, map is brushed on surface of granite. Today what we are using vastu for constructions are used by them so here we are following their ideas.In vastu we fallow 3 sutras Brahma Sutra, Yama sutra and Naga Sutra, these 3 sutras are found in architectural blue print.They believe in goddesses Chaudamma and we can find temple here and it is cone shaped. These rock shelter is just damaged. But this rock paintings very Cleary.

4.Hire Gudda:

Hire Gudda is tallest among the all and it is measured 1683 feet from ground. *This hill is used for art and entertain purpose, rock art is rich in this hill. Stick figures and filled figures are found in this hill.Evidence are tells that they conduct meeting in this hill and they have knowledge about the music and they use to play music with the help of stone, these ringing rocks found at the top of the Hire Gudda. There are also round polished grooves that emit musical ringing tones when struck with granite or harder material as demonstrated to us by linganna.

The  most important point at top of the hill,  this  rock shelter and  stick rock paintings look at wonder beautiful 

*Subject of Rock Art in Sanganakallu::
More than 2000 individual and composed images can find in the site, all the images are purely subjective these subjective images are categorized in five types to make out study easy. Here all these images are fall under this 5 categories.
1. Animal and Birds figures.
2. Composed and entertainment figures.
3. Sex act motifs.
4. Pictographs.
5. Other figures
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It is necessary to discuss not just past we have to think about the future of the hill and today en-number of art works are destroyed due to large scale of commercial granite quarrying at Sanganakallu hill, some art works are partially and some are fully destroyed by the quarrying.
This heritage place is very important for present generation and future generation mainly for  who are in art field and it is must to know about the ancient art and it's development. They are well communicated their inner feelings through this art and this is the main media for their communication and they are master's in the sexual activity and those are drawn on the granite very  clearly.
Sanganakallu had evidence of ancient man passed all 5 ages. In 1894, then bellary district collector Peter Bruce  (  Brucepetarea in bellary is named after him )visited bellary. He on record wrote in Gazetteer mentioned that there were 77 pre history sites and in that Sanganakallu stands first. He descri bed Sanganakallu as pre historic Cradle. " why Sanganakallu? Because it had evidence of all -prehistoric, paralithical, mesalithic,  Neolithic, Stone age,  iron age and copper age. Totally this site very important site in india Karnataka.

Bailmarched Rock Paintings

Boyala marchedu or Bailmarched is a small village. It is located in Manvi talk of Raichur Distric of Karnataka. This village has its own history to introduce. Generally,  most of the villages witness archaeological shreds of evidence like victory stone,triumphant pillars, inscriptions,fort and fortness and temples but Bailmarched has the remnants of the pre historic period that is a quite unique and rare in its nature. Many  surprising facts will be found if the history of Bailmarched is dug up.                                   The speciality of this village  dates back to 5000 BC. Here many pieces of evidence  justify  the fact that the early man lived in this place. In connection with this fact, the tools like a stone weapons pieces of the broken pots; various types of stone equipment  and special red coloured  painting are found  in the village. Besides, more than 15 red coloured painting are excavated. Especially a picture related cognition is truly meaning full.                  Dr. Sunder has excavated these colour painting in Manvi, Bailmarched of Raichur District in the year 1974 under the patronage of archaeology. According to Dr. Sunder,  this place has 5000 years back history. He has  remarked that the hug rocks of this village look like blankets. His research has found many color paintings that are drawn on the walls inside the caves. Many such rock paintings are also found in the south -west part of the place. This place is known as katammayyanagundu. However, the place has an exact picture on cognition of Bailmarched. One of the picture in this palace highlights on the fight between horse riders who have worn turbans and have held javelins in their hands for the fight. This picture also features for the wandering of the oxen and bulls in the middle of the picture. These pictures have grey, red and red soil coating; these types of pictures are found in other caves too. The styles in the picture indicate that the picture do not belong to one particular period but they have different periods. The color paintings of the places are drawn as a eat  stick. Strange animals and birds picture can be found here. They are in shatter manner but man,  animals, birds seem as clear as photographs. Blood mixed colour is used to coat the painting. In addition to it, the changes in the art clearly attempt to tell us that they have been painted by the experts.                                       The  close observation of the colour plantings in these places states that they have exact similarities with the paintings of Badami. According to Dr. Sure, majority locations regarding the picture on stones are found more in Ballari whereas colour plantings are found in Raichur district.He has recorded all these details in his book pre-Historical Period. Here  he says 51'/,  coloured picture are found in 14 locations of Raichur District.                                   I end this article by appealing all for the preservation of rare historical  sites since I don't know why the  modern man is destroying the remnants of pre -historic  period whether he does it with knowingly and unknowingly that has to be investigated. Now, it is a wakeup call for all of us to save the traces of the past which can not be found  in every place. Therefore, it is our bound duty is to protect such historical tare sites since such rare historical  locations have to be preserved for the knowledge of the next generation otherwise, history will suffer in future for not having a proper source.

Onakindi Rock art paintings in chikkarampur

A rock art paintings site dating back to Neolithic  (New stone age )and megalithic  (iron age) and up to the early historic period  (from 4500 Bc to 2AD )discovered in onakindi or olakindi at chikkarampur village. Gangavathi talk. Koppal district Karnataka state. More than 100 rock art paintings with mystic figures belonging to human and pet animal's in different pastures depicted with red rock pastures were found on granite rocks in a rock shelter known as onakindi about two kilometres from chikkarampur village. Another interesting rock art paintings look like a burial site. Another one rock paintings was that of an gograhan place. The granite hillock at many places on it's flat top and slopes revealed evidence of mesolithic and Neolithic tools..............................

Ash mound in malapalli

Ash mound in malapalli
Malapalli village. Manthralayam mandalam. Yammiganur talk. Kurnool district. Ap state. Malapalli village is Neolithic site. Village north side main highway  road malapalli to madhavaram road left said field one ash mound in malapalli village. Ash mounds length East west side  60 fites and south  north side 85 fites length. Ash mound hight 6 fites. Local people called Nakkalamitta.  thippa,  dibba, budhidibba,  Ash mound are one of the important issuers dealing with the archeological remains related to Neolithic culture in south lndia.  Malapalli village nearest ash mounds is there one of the Humapuram village top up the hill in Jandagattu. Author one Gudikallu village top up the hill in susilamma Gattu. Around the beginning of second millennium Bc when parts of north western lndia was under a thriving civilization with cities and towns of lndus village, the anther parts of lndia had been lnhabitend by Neolithic  or chalcolithic. Archaeobotanical evidence for cultivation, however,  dates from .ca 2200 Bc,  while probably domestically cattle sheep and goats data to before 2600 Bc. The Neolithic continaed ash mounds 1200-1000 B.C.when lron objects fist apper and the perids is known is the megalithic. Which are now generally accepted as having ariginated from burnt cattle dung. in addition to the ash mounds there are many site as habitation aftern an the tops of granite hills as well a major concentrations of rick art attributed to this period.