HYDERABAD: Bhupalpally district, well known for the Bogatha waterfalls, is home to another breathtaking waterfall less known to people, the Gaddalasari waterfall, which is also an archaeologically important site. A city-based historian, who recently visited the site found some stone tools belonging from the Paleolithic age. The stone tools were found about a hundred metres away along the course of a stream of water from the point where water from the Gaddalasari waterfall lands. As per the historian Dyavanapalli Satyanarayana, the site was reached by him by walk 9 kilometers from Ramachandrapuram village in the Cherla-Venkatapur forest division. He said that he could reach the spot with the help from some of the tribals staying in the village.
Satyanarayana claimed that the waterfall got its name from Telugu word, Gaddalu, which means Eagle, as the waterfall’s height seems as tall as the height at which eagles fly. He also claimed that the less known waterfall can easily be among the tallest in India as it’s height is about 700 feet.
The Gaddalasari waterfall site falls very close to the Selibaka site mentioned by well known archaeologist Thakur Raja Ram Singh, who explored areas along course of river Godavari from Basara till Bhadrachalam, covering the erstwhile districts of Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and Khammam. His discoveries appeared in 1984 in the Journal of Archaeology, which included findings related to paleolithic stone tools, living conditions of the paleolithic man, flora and fauna of that time.