Udupi : The word rock art refers both paintings and petroglyphs. They were unquestionable cognitive evidences of illitarate societies. A pair of a human foot prints found on a natural stone boulder near Bolura Panne Koteda Babbu Swamy Shrine. The foot prints is about one feet in length half inch in depth. The people strongly belived that they were the sacred foot prints of Babbu Swamy say’s Prof Murugeshi T associate professor (Rtd), Ancient History and Archaeology, MSRS College, Shirva in his press release here today.

Buddhanajeddu is a very important rock art site of the Coastal Karnataka, which was discovered by me in 2009. In this site, more then twenty foot prints were discovered. But, they were about an holf feet and less then half feet in length and they are also belongs to first or second century A.D. More over, Buddhanajeddu foot prints created on the laterite surface, where as in Mangalore, they found on stone boulder. In Buddhanajeddu we have pottery evidence and stone tools of Neolithic period. But, the site under study have no relative evidences. Bolura foot prints, might have been created in first or second century A.D., which is make us rethink the origin of Babbu Swamy legend.

Archaeology of Babbu Swamy was launched very reccently in association with Minchinabavi Kordabbu Trust (R), Padubidri. As a part of this project we are visited the site of Bolura. My sincere thanks to the trust president Vamana Salian, Trustee Ramesh U, G. Sunder Gujjarabettu, B.P. Narayana Nejar, Anand Elluru and All members of Koteda Babbu Swamy temple of Bolura.