Lamgao Buddhist Caves — Attraction in Goa

One is a Shaivite cave. The other is a Buddhist cave. The Shaivaite cave is still being worshipped. A priest is taking care. There is a small frontcourt in front of the double pillared porch. The gap between the two central pillars is almost ten feet. The porch is almost eight feet deep. The shrine is nearly eight feet by seven feet having a Shivalinga. The yoni pitham is square with a three to four feet Shivalinga projecting above.

As regards the Buddhist cave, the front portion of the facade above the lintel has fallen down. The fallen part has preserved the course of stupikas carved on the front face of what was lintel. The interior is badly damaged. The most remarkable aspect of the hall is that it has preserved on the ceiling level the remains of four pillars connected by beams. The four pillars are arranged in a square plan. This is very close to Ajanta cave 11 and a cave in Kondavite / Mahakali caves in Mumbai. Similar plan is also seen Dharashiva cave 3 in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra. For plans, vide Burgess 1878 and 1880. Perhaps there were five cells in total. Two on either ends of the porch, one each on the interior left, rear, and right walls. The entire lower parts of the edifice has crumbled and lost. It is difficult to say whether there was any shrine in the Buddhist cave. I suspect not, unless it followed the suite as was done in Ajanta cave 11 wherein the shrine was added as an afterthought. One more conspicuous feature of the cave: there is vertical Vedika pattern carved on the inside and outside of the unusually thick rock-beam that connects the four interior pillars. Such carving is absent in Ajanta interior but preserved on the exterior of that cave's porch.

Conclusion: the Buddhist cave appears to be a contemporary of the said caves from Ajanta, Dharashiva, and Kondavite. It can be dated to circa 460 to 477CE based on current researches by Spink, Walter M. and Singh, Rajesh Kumar...

The kids are really hard to find as you have to go from the village in after that we'll find out and Palak and from there after work and go after a village and then you posted in the Jungle and have to park where there will be UP Board seeing the name of the temple and then have to go straight inside in there will be one small temple which is the which there is a Linga of Shiva and from there have to go a little bit 100m friends and I will find the other cages for parrots and the first ones have fallen for you can't go inside now because no one is going there we ask a local support the case but they also said they didn't go for years now and big and their scared of the beds and all the things that are there inside so no one is going inside so we also can go inside so please no one should go and sit there because I repair and The Poop of the pets...

I don't know much details about this Temple.

I went there on my visit to Goan temples.

It is in the middle of Arecanut plantation.

Not a big place in terms of size of architecture.

But we can't say anything about the power of a spiritual place.

Not a must visit place in Goa's itinerary, as there is not much thing that you can see or do here.

But it is a cool and calm place. You can do some meditation.

I think if you pray God for any reason, it gets fulfilled here. There were some horse's small statues. It looks like they were presented to the God after the fulfillment of the wishes of the devotees.

I am not sure about it.

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