In Rudyard Kipling’s “Kaa’s Hunting,” the ruined city occupied by the Bandar-log is called the Cold Lairs.
The Cold Lairs are abandoned human ruins where the Bandar-log, or monkey people, take Mowgli after kidnapping him. The setting gives the story a contrast between the monkeys’ noisy disorder and the older, silent structures left behind by humans. Baloo and Bagheera enlist Kaa’s help to rescue Mowgli.
Kipling’s description presents the Cold Lairs as a fictional jungle ruin rather than a clearly identified historical city. Readers sometimes connect the setting to real South Asian ruins, but the text does not name a specific archaeological site. The story is included in the original 1894 collection The Jungle Book and is one of the central Mowgli episodes.