Assertion : Hero stones are also known as menhirs . They are source of heroism and sacrifice.
Reason. : The stones are called hero stones as they are planted in the ground.
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Assertion : Hero stones are also known as menhirs . They are source of heroism and sacrifice.
Reason. : The stones are called hero stones as they are planted in the ground.
The memorial stones discovered in the Kondaharahalli village belong to the 10th tenth century C.E.
Ten memorial stones, six of them with Kannada inscriptions, have been discovered at near the hills close to Kondaharahalli village, six km west of Bommidi in Dharmapuri district, Tamil Nadu. All the stones have identical sculptural representations and belong to the 10th century C.E. (Common Era).
According to Dr. K. Rajan, head, Department of History, Pondicherry University, the memorial stones were erected in the Tamil country between the first millennium B.C. and the Vijayanagara period (16th century A.D.), in memory of men who were killed in cattle raids or when they were attacked by a tiger or an elephant. These stones are different from the hero stones: the latter were erected to honour valiant men killed in battle, or those who lost their lives while defending their villages or womenfolk. The hero stones are called ‘ nadu kal' in Tamil.
The earliest memorial stones were the Iron Age burial monuments put up between 1,000 BCE (Before Common Era) and 3rd BCE. They were in the
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