by
Subhashis Das
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Fig 1. Megaliths of Banjha |
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| Fig 2. THIS IS THE SACRED GROVE OR SARNA WITHIN WHICH LIES THE MEGALITHIC SITE |
Inside
there are about thousands of burial/memorial stones lying scattered in all
directions. Some stand straight, some fallen and some are inclined. It is
difficult to deduce how exactly they were originally positioned.
Look at Fig 3…here is a single row of stones in which the menhirs are inclined towards opposite directions; rather they are
made to point towards the east and the west while the row has a North South
orientation. Such arrangements can be
seen among many megaliths around here (http://www.megalithindia.in/2012/02/megaliths-of-chatra.html
). It can be perhaps be said with a certain amount of confirmation that many menhirs have been planted with a deliberate tilt.
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| FIG 3. THE NORTH SOUTH ROW WITH MENHIR PLACED AT OPPOSITE DIRECTION; I.E. TOWRDS EAST AND WEST. |
The site also comprises megaliths
of the Dravidian speaking Oraon tribes. Their megaliths which are a combination
of a dolmen with a flat centre stone and adjacent to it a menhir is made to
stand, are different from the others.
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FIG 4. THE KUNDRUN BABA. Note the vermilion marks, this is the stone that is worshipped as the Kudrun Baba. |
Inside the site is a stone which
is worshipped as the “Kudrun Baba” and the priest belongs to the iron smelting primitive
Asur tribe.
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| FIG 5. THE MEGALITHS. |
The site could be very old as
megaliths in Chatra have been found to
belong to Chalcolithic period.
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| FIG 6. ANOTHER SIDE OF THE MEGALITHS. |
©Subhahsis Das
2 comments:
What a read...exceptional sir.
Deepak Deori.
Thank you as always for sharing this information. the trees obviously grew more recently so i imagine in antiquity they were not there. Those angles once again strike me as informative. If they are bent just so they provided better protection against incoming projectiles that have been lobbed on an arched trajectory. I wonder if any of these sites world wide show evidence of past skirmishes. Ive seen some in Tibet that look scorched and many of them are riddled with what look like shrapnel damage. Ive seen these similar marks in Budapest on buildings that were caused by the upheaval of 1954. Also in vietnam some buildings have scars. Perhaps we could look over some images to find traces of scarring. Perhaps they were also a symbolic show of a fortified defense whether or not a real battle occurred. Great site as always
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