IMAGES OF MEGALITHS

It is a sheer impossibility to document all the megaliths of India. But below is featured only a handful of the diverse and interesting megalithic architectures of the nation. The album is updated very often.

Menhir in Dhanaura. Chattisgarh

Anthropomorphic structures. Telegana

Menhirs in Erode. Credit : Sasi Dharan

Ziro. Arunachal Pradesh . NE India. Menhir stands 25' tall.  The menhir has two more megaliths beside it. Hindus worship this as Shiva linga.Photo Credit: Sudip Acharjee

Stone Circle in Erode. Tamil Nadu. Credit: Sasi Dharan

Inside a burial chamber with port-hole. Credit: Sasi Dharan.

The cupmarks of  Daraki Chattan, M.P.; the  largest Cupule ever discovered in India

Ruined dolmen of  Krishnagiri hills Tamil Nadu

Veejak ki Pahari, Rajasthan. Pic courtesy:http://www.flickr.com/photos/ratnasinghrathore/5737381869/in/photostream/

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Cairn in Noongaon

Nilaskal. Karnataka (Photo courtesy: Srikumar Menon)

Dolmen of Sindh, Pakistan (Photo: Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro)

The remnants of the ruined Stone Circle of Asota, Pakistan. Courtesy:Mr.Nawaz Ud-Din. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan

I stand behind a large flat table-top capstoned dolmen in Chokahatu

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Megaliths of Hirebenekal. Photo courtesy circa71.wordpress.com

Monolith of Shillong. Photo courtesy. www.megalithicsites.co.uk

Dolmens in Nartiang, Shillong.Photo courtesy: www.megalithicsites.co.uk

Burjahom megaliths, Kashmir (India). Photo courtesy: family.webshots.com

 

The menhirs in Banadag

                                    

A tall menhir in Chaibasa

The Birbir megalithic complex comprises of an inclined obelisk (at whose front I stand), one triangle facing the due east,a human shaped burial cover with a North South orientation and a Recumbent Mother Goddess Form of the Zulzul Hill at the background. Note how the tip of the menhir in aligned to the "V" notch of the hill in the landscape.

The beautiful head of a lizard of a tortoise/lizard hybrid dolmen. The head faces the due east.

This menhir is in Gurua aligned to the Mother Goddess in the landscape. The site; a burial site of the erstwhile Munda tribals is relatively new.

    

This complex is in Napo. The menhir having small mica specks engrained in it , sparkles under the moon. One political party has shamefully used the menhir as it publicity board (sic).

A Double cap-stone dolmen in Jagannath pahari

Stone Circle of Thiruporur near Chennai. Source. www.megalithic.co.uk

Self portrait in Singhani

                              
 

          Uttam stands near menhirs of Baiatu in Jharkhand

Dolmen in Kesura

 Dolmen in Jagannath pahari

Prantik near an ancient Dolemn, now Hinduised with a  Hanuman ji placed inside it , in the process, saving the primitive monument from obliteration.

I stand in the Rola megalithic complex

Megaliths of Napo

An old picture of the stone alignments of the megaliths of Vivhuthihalli. Source : N.K.Rao

The fascinating megalithic complex of Punkree Burwadih

The stone circle in Banadag

The megalithic complex of  Jabra Road. Villagers worship this primitive shrine as the Pacahi Baba

This small menhir worshipped as the 'Ghoda baba has quite a large circular henge around it

Sujit next to a large menhir in a village in Bariath

A Topikallu megalith of Kerela. Photo courtesy: megalithictherockmagic.blogspot.com

Stone alignments of Vibhuthihalli, Karnataka.  Photo credit: N.Kameshara Rao and Priya Thakur

A very primitive megalithic burial of the Oraon tribe in Banjha. These dolmens are also known as 'Kursi' by the locals due to their close resemblance with chairs

Dolmen of Marayoor, kerela . 

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/41867788@N07/3861071073/

This stunning stone structure is in Godda in the Santal Parganas of Jharkhand state.We have no idea whether this is man made or not but the architecture resembles the tale of a submerging whale. Note in the foreground there is another structure which does resemble a whale.

Ruined megalith but the megalithic complex has a peculiar lay out of menhirs.

This is a Stone Circle on which there is an indifferent layout of the two menhirs. The two stones actually frame the rising sun on Summer Solstice mornings.

This menhir is about 3.017 mtrs tall and has an East-West orientation

Note how these two menhirs in the foreground and the two stones in the background are positioned parallel to each other...sheer beauty!