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The demolished astronomical megaliths of Rola/Chano
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Rola/Chano megalithic complex in her hey days.
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It was about 20 years ago that I
had first discovered this tiny megalithic site of Chano also known as Rola.
Finding this to be a tiny megalith I held this to be an insignificant site while
I contemplated on my other discovered megalithic sites.
Much later only when I took up Rola/Chano
megaliths as my study site then I realized what a major site this was;
something which the country had never seen earlier.
The site was indeed a very early
form of a sasandiri burial of the erstwhile tribals. Apart from this I found
the megalithic complex was exactly located at the intersection of the
alignments of the hills in the landscape. The stones in the site were
positioned perfectly aligned to the hills in the landscape.
The site I found was oriented
towards the sunrises and sets of both the Summer and Winter Solstices. Black
and Red Wares (BRW); a rarity in Jharkhand have found by the plough adjacent to
the site. Stone tools as scrapers, point, blades an iron implements as tattoo maker,
nail pairer and fragment of a bone flute has been found in situ from the site
and these are all in my personal museum.
There were more basic mathematics
and horizon astronomy in the site which I have mentioned in two of my books: SACRED
STONES IN INDIAN CIVILIZATION and THE ARCHAEOASTRONOMY OF A FEW MEGALITHIOC
SITE OF JHARKHAND.
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People gather along with me to view the Winter Solstice sunrise in the site
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The triangular pointer is positioned perfectly to point towards the sunrise of the Winter Solstice
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Archaeologists, scholars, archaeoastronomers
from all over the world as England, France, Germany and Russia apart from various
megalith lovers from other parts of the nation thronged to the site. Several
documentaries were made on the site.
Archaeologists of ASI, State Secretary,
DCs, Commissioner all visited the site and suggested immediate protection of
the site.
They all lied as these people had
no interest in protecting a tribal megalithic site hence nothing was done and
today the site has been completely vandalized by uprooting the astronomically
planted stones. The triangular pointers towards the sunrises are grounded to
dust and burial stones have been towed away.
In the process the a major source
of India’s prehistory is lost along with the evidence that mathematics and
astronomy was known to the ancient tribals thousands of years prior to the
Brahmanical astronomers.
1 comment:
That's very unfortunate that those megaliths have been destroyed. It's very good that you got some documentary evidence of the site, but no amount of photographs or descriptions can replace the real thing.
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