- A hero
stone (Vīragallu in Kannada, Naṭukal in Tamil) is a
memorial commemorating the
honorable death of a hero in battle.
Erected between the
second half...
- Hero
stone (
Virgal) at
Nageshvara temple, Begur...
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being so
complete that they
committed suicide after his death. Hero
stones (
virgal)
erected in
memory of
these bodyguards are
called Garuda pillars. The Garuda...
- Hero
stone (
virgal) with old
Kannada elegiac inscription (1220) at the
Ishwara temple in Arasikere, Karnataka...
-
endoskeletons called ossicles, such as half-cylinders or the ambulacral,
virgal that form
skeleton between the ambulacral, and a pair of
mouth plates that...
-
Permian Chideru,
which contains many ammonites, the Late —
Middle Permian Virgal, and the
Middle Permian Amb unit. In the Tri****ic the
Ceratite beds, named...
- Hero
stone (
Virgal) with Old
Kannada inscription dated 1286 CE from the rule of
Yadava King
Ramachandra in
Kedareshvara temple at
Balligavi in Shimoga...
- and well
sculptured pillars (stambha) but also
noteworthy hero
stones (
virgal) with
exceptional relief.
According to
historian and
epigraphist J. F. Fleet...
-
fights of the same or
different species. The
Atakur inscription (hero stone,
virgal) was made for the
favourite hound of the
feudatory Western Ganga King Butuga...
- hero stone,
known as "Natukal" by Tamils, "Gandragallu" by
Telugu and "
Virgal" by Kannadigas, is a
memorial commemorating the
honorable death of a hero...
