Editor’s Note
This article describes a remarkable phenomenon in Sagar district, where villagers have discovered valuable multicolored stones, prompting a shift in local activity and an official archaeological investigation. The story highlights the intersection of natural resource discovery, economic opportunity, and cultural heritage.
Sagar. The land of a field in Ishwar Pur village of Deori development block in the district is spitting out beautiful multicolored stones. The price of these colorful stones is said to range from 100 rupees to 10 thousand rupees. Under these circumstances, villagers have left their work and are engaged all day in searching for stones. After receiving information, a team from the Archaeology Department visited the village and surrounding areas. It has come to light that these stones are about 400 years old, which were made by Banjaras during the reign of Gond kings. Learn in this special report…
Colorful, valuable, round stones are emerging from about 14 acres of patta land in Ishwar Pur village of Deori development block, Sagar district. To acquire these stones, people are leaving their work from morning till evening and engaging in digging. The process of stones emerging has been ongoing for the past few months in the field of Ratan Singh Thakur, adjacent to Ishwar Pur village.
Those who have acquired these stones took them to gem and jewelers in Jabalpur. They determined the price based on the stones. After that, as people in and around the village found out, they also started digging in the area.
Villagers reported that jewelers in Jabalpur buy small round stones for 100 rupees, while larger stones sell for 2 to 10 thousand rupees. Now, some traders are coming to the village itself and buying colorful stones from people. Since traders started coming to the village, people have been leaving all their work and digging the land to search for stones.
Multicolored, shiny stones are emerging from the digging on government patta land in Ishwar Pur village, Sagar. In search of these, villagers leave their work daily and get involved. The team of the Archaeological Survey of India, Sagar, after investigation, told the history of these stones. The investigation found that these multicolored stones are about 400 years old, which are found just by digging a little into the upper surface of the land.
Team leader Rahul Tiwari said.
