Saat Talle Gupha

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This is Saat Talle Gupha-Seven Storied Cave in English. A small stream flows from the east to the west to eventually join the Paatu Khola river seen on the west side of this place. (On one of those forest firewood collecting day we had time to catch some fish in this stream. There are no pebbles or smooth shaped stones in this river, all it has is rocks, and sharp pieces of rocks slid from the cliffs). At this place, when you are facing north, to your left, on the north bank of that small stream is the Saat Talle lake.

I don't really know whether or not it really is seven storied because the thought of counting the storeys never occurred to me at that time. But I have been inside the cave and I remember that we had to climb the rocky cliff to reach the cave. It was slippery because there was natural spring of water which flowed down. It was dark inside the cave, water was constantly flowing through the deep labyrinths, water was up to your knees. There were big smooth rocks. Water was dripping from above because water was coming from some natural spring somewhere within the cave. So, it seemed as if there was a little drizzle. The rocks had been shaped into strange shapes due to the flow of water. There were structures like the udder of a cow, hanging from above. Most prominent was a stone structure on a corner of the cave. People said the stone structure looked like the statue of meditating Shiva-one of the three main gods in Hinduism. Again I don't really know if it really looked like the statue of Shiva. But that was what people said.

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