�About the beginning of the year 1896, Mr. F. Fawcett, Superintendent of police, Malabar, discovered a very remarkable natural cave near Sultan�s Battery in the Wynaad. The walls of the cave are covered with rude, fanciful drawings and bear five short inscriptions.�
These are the words of the noted German Indologist and epigraphist, Dr. Hultszch, in his first description of what we call today, the Edakkal Caves.
