Rock Shelter 7

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The Art of Rock Paintings

Rock Shelter 7

This is the only shelter which depicts the drawings of fowl, scorpions and centipedes. The paintings of the historical period in this shelter are well preserved. It flaunts of rich illustrations like that of bands of armor-clad soldiers and cavaliers. The drawings of two horse riders and two soldiers, one of them fallen on the ground can be seen. The designs of a human figure overlapping horse, a man with an axe and a vertical figure of a horse in white lines are displayed. There is also a painting of seven troops, a horse, two chicks, a centipede, a panther and a jungle fowl. The ceiling in the main shelter is badly weathered but still displays figures of soldiers, women, dog, birds, flower, and sun pattern.

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