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{{Infobox historic site
| name = Gudahandi
| native_name = ଗୁଡ଼ହାଣ୍ଡି
| native_language = Odia
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| type = Hills
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| location = [[Ampani]], [[Koksara]], [[Odisha]]
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'''Gudahandi''' also known as ''''Gudahandi Hills'''' and ''''Gudahandi Caves'''' is a pre-historic site in [[Odisha]], [[India]]. It is located in the [[Ampani]] sanctuary of [[Kalahandi district]] of [[Odisha]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kalahandi.nic.in/places-of-interest/|title=Places of Interest {{!}} Kalahandi District: Odisha|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-18}}</ref> It is close to the [[Nabarangpur district]] Border and about 17 km and 88 km away from [[Ampani]] and District Headquarters [[Bhawanipatna ]] respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kalahandi.nic.in/history/|title=History {{!}} Kalahandi District: Odisha|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-18}}</ref>

==History==
The word ''Gudahandi'' is derived from two [[Odia language|Odia]] words, ''guda'' meaning [[raw sugar]] and ''handi'' meaning a clay pot. The appearance of the hills resembles sugar pots that used be used in [[Odisha]]. Pre-historic pictographs, drawings and inscriptions are crafted on the stone walls of the Gudahandi caves. These caves date back to 25,000 to 20000 [[Common Era|CE]].{{cn|date=October 2020}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Prusty |first1=Subrat Kumar |title=Odia Bhasa Sahitya Parichaya |date=2007 |publisher=A.K. Mishra publishers Pvt. Ltd, Satyabhama, Roxy lane, Badambadi, Cuttack-0,Odisha. |location=Cuttack |isbn=978-81-921347-1-0 |page=7-8|edition=1st}}</ref>

==Paleolithic Paintings==
The rock art shelter exhibits both monochrome and bi-chrome paintings of early historic period. It is the only reported rock art site of Kalahandi district.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rock Art Shelter of Gudahandi |url=http://ignca.nic.in/asi_reports/orkalahandi001.pdf |publisher=INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Districts Gazetteers(Kalahandi) |url=http://www.gopabandhuacademy.gov.in/sites/default/files/CHAPTER_2_12.pdf |publisher=Government of Odisha}}</ref> The rock art panel preserves the specimen of paintings which include a stylized human figure in red, deer and a variety of geometric patterns of squares and rectangles either empty or in filled with straight and diagonal lines or with dots on the borders grid patterns, wheels with spokes, apsidal patterns, oval shapes with dots executed either in monochrome of red or in polychrome of red, blue and black.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://odishaculture.gov.in/Paintings.asp|title=Culture Department|website=odishaculture.gov.in|access-date=2019-01-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Prusty|first1=Subrat Kumar|title=BHASA O JATIYATA|date=2010|publisher=with finical assistance by Dept. of Culture, Govt. of Odisha|location=Bidyadharpur, Jajpur|page=22|edition=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak|author2=[[Subrat Kumar Prusty]]|title=A Report on classical status of Odia Language|date=2013|publisher=Department of Culture, Govt. Of Odisha|location=Bhubaneswar, Odisha|page=90|edition=1st}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Debi Prasanna Pattanayak |author2=[[Subrat Kumar Prusty]] |section=Why not Odia? |volume=XXI |title=CLASSICAL ODIA |date=2013 |publisher=KIIS Foundation, New Delhi |location=Maitri Vihar, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar, Odisha |isbn=978-81-925616-3-9 |page=33 |edition=1st}}</ref>

==Gallery==
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File:Gudahandi Rock painting.jpg
File:GudaHandi Rock Art.jpg
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==Reference==
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{{Kalahandi district}}
[[Category:Kalahandi district]]

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