SITAGRAHA HILLS

Subject : Culture

Context : By a hill in Jharkhand, Buddhist remains from a millennium ago.

Concept :

This site is a major Buddhist shrine from the Mauryan Period 250 before the present era; it is aligned to dolmen and other megalithic sites and the sacred hill, Marang Buru, of the Birhor indigenous tribe.
Marang Buru is also called Juljul and forms the recumbent landscape figure known as a reclining Mother Goddess.
On the south is a 65 foot-long stone face called Mahadeva or Great God by the Bihors. Mahadeva is a term used alternately for Shiva and Buddha.
The hill and the stone face continue to be worshipped ritually by the Bihors.