Place · prehistoric rock art site · India
Onake Kindi
/oɳake kɪɳɖi/
Also known as Onake Kindi, Onake Kindi Cave Paintings
Onake Kindi is a prehistoric rock-art site near Hampi, with paintings preserved in natural rock shelters. The imagery includes human figures, animals and hunting scenes, providing evidence of early artistic expression in the Tungabhadra landscape.
- Periods
- Prehistory
- Function
- Archaeology & heritage
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 15.369, 76.475
Worth knowing
The paintings include humans, cattle, peacocks, horses, a tiger and snakes, along with hunting scenes involving bows and mounted figures. Onake Kindi forms part of Anegundi’s wider prehistoric landscape, alongside Maurya Mane.
Connections (2)
- Site adjacencyHire Benakal
Hire Benakal's dolmen field and the Kappagallu or Onake Kindi rock-art hill sit within about eighty kilometres of each other in the Tungabhadra granite country, and both belong to the same long neolithic and megalithic occupation of that landscape — the ash mounds, the bruised bull paintings, the dolmens. It is the densest prehistoric landscape in southern India and it is the one Vijayanagara was later built in the middle of.
- Site withinHampi / Vijayanagara
Onake Kindi lies within Hampi / Vijayanagara — the two sites sit about 4 km apart, well inside the city's historical boundary and part of the same urban or peri-urban landscape. Onake Kindi is one of the specific sites that give Hampi / Vijayanagara its layered character, and reads differently when seen as a stop within the larger city rather than as an isolated monument on an open map. The surrounding neighbourhoods, roads and other heritage ensembles belong to the same single urban fabric.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Kappagallu”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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