Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India. Rock-Paintings and Other Antiquities of Prehistoric and Later Times

Away from the maritime provinces of India on the one hand and the great Indo-Gangetic plains on the other this central table-land is traversed by the mighty Vindhya and Satpura hills with their offshoots such as the Kaimur range is watered by the Nernidda the Son the Mahanadi and other smaller rivers and bounded on the south-east by the impenetrable forest land of the feudatory states of Cent [...] The paintings of Singanpur are in a rock-shelter which is visible from Nahapali a small station on the main line of the Bengal Nagpur Railway about 11 miles west of Vaigarli the capital of the Feudatory State of the same name in the Chhatisgarh Division of the Central Provinces just close to the Chhota Nagpur border. [...] The rock-shelter which overlooks the village of Singanpur commands a fine view of the valley of the river Mand a tributary of the Mahanadi ' river (Plate lb). [...] In the north is the alluvial plain of the Ganges with its level tract next a table-land stretching from the top of the Vindhyan scarp southwards to the Kaimur range and the valley of the Son river and beyond the Son a wild hilly tract full of ravines and craggy hills and valleys. [...] Some three miles to the south of this Bungalow is the famous hill fort of Bijaygarh crowning the flat top of one of the hills of the range.