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Rakas Jee Roon, Khairpur

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Rakas Jee Roon or the cave of a wild beast, as the name coined by the local residents for a briefly deep (approximately 15 feet) cave in the hilly range of Rohri hills, about 30 kilometres off Shadi Shaheed in the east. The myth associated with this cave is that one's there lived a wild beast, who used to thrive on human flash. Locals claim that lot of bones were used to be found scattered in and around the cave site. Its terror unleashed in the area forced the local residents to move to safer places. During our journey to the cave site, we fearlessly scaled the hill (approximately 200 feet high) and jumped into it and found nothing inside or outside it, except some nests of wild birds and excreta of flying bats. The cave as such is about 15 feet deep with a dia of equal size. It is completely a deserted place with zero human movement. Beneath it, there lies about 300 feet deep well, the only source of getting water for the whole area, mostly herders. It is said that during the mid 19905 then district administration of Khairpur dug and developed wells in the hilly and desert areas of Khairpur and Naro talukas. The entire area is barred of any tree except dwarfed wild bushes. The road/path leading to this site is katcha and is mostly hilly.

The site is rich with artifacts and lot of broken pieces of stone armory is also recovered to the surface collectors which include cores, flakes and blades. The recovered material belongs to Harappan period.

There is an urgent need of undertaking a full fledged research study on this site, so as to bring hitherto undiscovered history and facts about the mighty hills of Rohri to see the light of the day and bring clear picture about this area or the monuments of identical nature, lying in the heart of the hills.

[Source: Khairpur Jewel & Crown of Sindh by Momin Bullo]