By- Srushti sharma
In Madhya Pradesh's Dhar, the Mandaloi family has been worshipping palm-sized "stone balls" for generations.
41-year-old Vesta Mandaloi was following in his forefathers' footsteps, worshipping these balls as "Kakar Bhairav" or lord of the land.
Stone balls were a 'Kuldevta' or a totem that would protect their farmland and cattle from problems and misfortunes.
Like the Mandaloi family, others in Dhar and in adjoining areas too had similar totems they worshipped for protection.
However, a team of researchers revealed that these balls turned out to be something else.
During a field visit by experts determined that these stone ball totems were actually dinosaur eggs from a bygone era.
After an analysis, they came to the conclusion that these balls were fossilised eggs of the Titanosaurs species of dinosaurs.
The species was recorded for the first time in 1877, and its name means 'titanic lizard'.
Titanosaur is among the largest dinosaurs to have roamed the planet.
Earlier this year, more than 250 eggs of the titanic lizard that once roamed the Narmada valley were discovered in MP's Dhar district.