5| FOOTE: GEOLOGY OF THE DELLARY DISTRICT. 



pleasing. Beyond the river the eye ranges far in a grea semi-circle, 

 and takes in the wonderful wilderness of rocks lying to the west and 

 north of the town of Anagundi, where the survivor of the Vijayanagar 

 family lives as a jaghirdar under the Nizam. Though not rich, this 

 scion of a fallen royal family is remembered as such and treated 

 with great respect. 



Immediately below the Martanda Parvatum temple the visitor 

 sees a number of narrow but very rich, because irrigated, valleys 

 meandering between the rocky hills, and contrasting their wealth of 

 vegetation with the man-made barrenness of the hills themselves. 



In the gorge of the Tungabhadra one cannot help being struck 

 The *orge of the Wl ^ ^ e enormous force exhibited by the water 

 Tungabhadra. passing through at high floods. Despite the 



great hardness of the granite the water has in many places drilled 

 large potholes and worn a very deep cut into the solid rock. At 

 flood times the view of the mighty river forced into that gorge 

 must be something very remarkable and awe-inspiring. The 

 f( tumult of the waters" must be something wonderful, probably as 

 striking, though different in kind, as the scene at the falls of the 

 Kistna, so beautifully described by Meadows Taylor in " The Noble 

 Queen". 



Outside the actual gorge of the river there is not a trace of water 

 action : all the wonderful rock scenery is due to sub-aerial influences 

 only. 



To the south the visitor looks from the top of the Martanda 

 temple across what was the centre of the old city to the towering 

 scarp of Jambanath Konda in the north-eastern wall of the Sandur 

 valley, and his eye rests on a totally different set of rocks, as unlike in 

 colour and disposition to the granitoid as it is well possible for two 

 sets of rocks to be. The Jambanath scarp is perfectly free from 

 fallen blocks such as crowd the hill sides north of the river and give 

 rise to the wonderful screes lying around Anagundi, which must have 

 been a greater protection to the town than the walls surrounding 

 it. 



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