Winter Solstice sunrises at the megaliths of Hazaribagh. Jharkhand. India.

 

    Subhashis Das

Images of the Winter Solstice sunrises in the prehistoric megalithic sites of Hazaribagh.
The two left vertical images are that of the Chano/Rola megaliths; The top one shows a triangular pointer within the Chano megalithic site indicating the sunrise and the bottom image shows a few onlookers observing the sunrise.
The right vertical images are that of Punkri Burwadih and the people that have gathered to witness the Winter Solstice sunrise beating the winter chill. 

The page demonstrates a few photographs of sunrises during the Winter Solstice morning in two megalithic sites of Jharkhand discovered by me some 20 years ago.

Commemorating the Solsticial and Equinoctial sunrises is a pagan festival given to fertility rituals. Megaliths being fertility burial- shrines were used to view the sunrises on these occasions to celebrate fertility festivals.

Hence a few of such megalithic burials were created astronomically to observe the sunrises of these dates to enable them to celebrate these significant days. Therefore such sites that were created by the ancient tribal megalith makers who possessed a fair knowledge of basic mathematics and astronomy thousands of years prior to the Brahmanical astronomers and mathematicians. 

PUNKRI BURWDIH

The first photograph is that of the megalithic complex of Punkri Burwadih. 
Studying the site for several years I have found it having alignment towards the sunrise of the Equinoxes and that of the both Summer and the Winter Solstices.

THE WINTER SOLSTICE SUNRISE IN PUNKRI BURWADIH

The ancient tribal megalith makers have positioned the two menhirs so accurately that standing on a particular point on the North-South axis one can view the sun rise today exactly from the gap created by the two tall menhirs M1 and M2 in the Punkri Burwadih Megalithic complex. 

THE WINTER SOLSTICE SUNRISE IN PUNKRI BURWADIH

The ancient megalith makers have positioned the two menhirs so accurately that standing on a particular point on the North-South axis one can view the sun rise today exactly from the gap created by the two tall menhirs M1 and M2 in the Punkri Burwadih Megalithic complex. 

 

Sharing a hot cuppa tea with Bubu, my wife and Shib Shankar in the foggy and shivering cold Winter Solstice morning while the megalithic site is visible in the distance

 

Bubu, Prantik, my son and I look for the sunrise in the foggy morning

CHANO (ROLA)

The Chano (aka Rola) Megalithic complex near Hazaribagh in the Eastern State of Jharkhand in India that was discovered by me some two decades ago no more exists today; thanks to the negligence and disregard of tribal megalithic sites by Hazaribagh District Administration, State Archaeological Department and the Archaeological Survey of India.

Chano was one of the most fascinating megalithic sites that was created with mathematics and astronomy in times of prehistory by the erstwhile tribes. This amazing site when it existed was aligned towards the sunrises and sets of both the Summer and Winter Solstices. 
The small triangle within the now defunct megalithic complex was positioned so accurately by the ancient tribal megalithic astronomers  that on Winter Solstice mornings the triangle points towards the sunrise of this day (as seen in the photograph).

The tiny stone triangle in the now defunct megalithic site of Chano has been planted is such a manner that the vertex points accurately towards the Winter Solstice sunrise.
(This view can never be viewed now as the site is thoroughly destroyed with the stones within the site having uprooted)

This is the perhaps the last photograph of the gathering during the Winter Solstice sunrise viewing at the Chano megalithic site.

(This view can now never ever be seen as the site is completely destroyed)

If you wish to know more of these and a few more of other archaeoastronomical megalithic sites of Jharkhand you may order  one of my earlier books THE ARCHAEOASTRONOMY OF A FEW MEGALITHIC SITES OF JHARKHAND from Amazon or other online book stores (if it is not available at a bookstore near you):

https://www.amazon.in/Archaeoastronomy-Few-Megalithic-Sites-Jharkhand/dp/9386906163