Dighwa-Dubauli

Dighwa-Dubauli is a village in Gopalganj district of Bihar in India. It is situated at about 56 km north of Chapra and 40 km southeast of Gopalganj town. It is known for an ancient site and two extraordinary pyramidal-shaped mounds. These two mounds are situated close to the southeast of the village facing each other in the east and west. Each of these mounds is of a pyramidal shape with four corners at the base projecting considerably outwards in such a manner that a ground plan of one of these mounds would resemble a fore pointed star surmounted centrically by a cone. These mounds appeared to be formed of clay, but mixed with small fragments of brick and pottery.

At the distance of 950 feet to the south of the eastern mound, there is a round-shaped mound of moderate height, with a horizontal diameter of about 200 feet from north to south, and about 140 feet from east to west. There is an old well here. Across the road to the north of the village there is a portion of the mound, which appears as if cut off by the road from the large flat mound, on which the village Dighwa Dubauli itself stands. These mounds are said to have been the works of Chero-Chai, i.e., of the Cheros, an aboriginal race who seem to have once been powerful in this part of the country, but who now inhabit the hills to the south of the Ganges.

There is also a railway station here.