LAOS' jar TYPE megalithic site found in jharkhand

Two large megaliths with jar type holes carved on their flat tops.

Long: 85⁰ 24’ 57.6”  Lat: 23⁰ 41” 49.2”

A few kms from the district headquarters of Ramgarh in the  Jharkhand state of East India is a village called Huhua. In the outskirts of this village is a small megalithic site that closely resembles the Laos' Plain of Jar type megalithic site. 

However there is a difference between these two sites. 

A panorama of the entire Huhua megalithic site with the inclined male amlaka stone. The rest of the standing stones has jar type holes at their top that perhaps signify their female genders

If the Laos site is spread to many acres of land that house thousands of such jar type megaliths there, the Huhua site is relatively smaller as there are only 7 stones that are of the jar type which have holes on their flattened tops.

Two more jar type female stones with holes in their tapered tops

The jar type stones in Huhua could be smaller in comparison to that of Laos' but is indeed quite large and heavy. One stone has an amlaka type structure at its top. Amlakas are piece of architecture that can be seen atop a Hindu temple. We do not know whether the structure was meant to be an amalaka signifying the Hinduisation of the pre/non Aryan megalithic site or was it meant to serve as a male turban. 

The Amlaka at the top of the columned menhir though is a rare feature but can also be seen in a few other megalithic sites of Jharkhand as that of Basantpur and Lohardagga etc. Both the turbaned and the ones with holes incised at their top have designs engraved, embossed and even drawn on them.

One of the six squares; this has cupules on its surface and sits beside a fallen jar type megalith

Six box type square stones lie on the floor which although are rare is yet quite a popular megalithic structure of Jharkhand. One of them has cupules engraved on it.   

The local villagers worship the stones during the Hindu festival of Shiva Ratri when the male Shiva marries his female counterpart Shakti or Parwati transforming him into an androgynous deity.

Two more of the jar type female stones

Connecting Huhua to marriage makes us understand that perhaps this ancient megalithic site was constructed with the intention of creating this as a cult site associated with fertility.

The one with the amlaka at its top could be the male stone suggesting that it could be the burial/memorial stone of a king. The jar type megaliths which have  large holes on their apexes could denote the female vulva representative of the queen or female nobles.

I believe it would not be correct to relate this megalithic site with any of the present day megalithic tribes as that of the Mundas, Asurs, Oraons and the Hos as their monuments do not reveal any similarities with the one of Huhua.

The male stone with the amlaka or turban on it head flanked by three jar type female stones with holes on their tapered crowns.

There are no written documents to show the reason of the similarites of these megalithic sites of Laos and Huhua. The most logical conclusion for this phenomenon is  the possible contact between these two far flung lands of Vietnam and India that must have given rise to the Jar type megaliths in these two countries. Excavation is mandatory to confirm both this speculation and the date of Huhua.

Huhua is oriented to the Summer and the Winter Solstice sunrises and sets respectively.