Valathy

187 (above), Natural cave near the wester outskirts of Valathy, a village with a 400-year-old temple and a Jaina congregation of about thirty families.

Illustration 106 (above left) shows a close-up of the cave’s undated sculpture.

Time, it seems, was of little concern then-and still is when judged by the potter (ill 108) seen at work in the yard of his reed-thatched dwelling halfway between the cave and the village.