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Agate (/ ˈ æ ɡ ɪ t / AG-it) is a variety of chalcedony, [1] which comes in a wide variety of colors. Agates are primarily formed within volcanic and metamorphic rocks.The ornamental use of agate was common in ancient Greece, in assorted jewelry and in the seal stones of Greek warriors, [2] while bead necklaces with pierced and polished agate date back to the 3rd millennium BCE in the Indus ...
Tamil inscriptions in caves, Mangulam, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, 3rd century BCE. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] There are five caves in the hill of which six inscriptions are found in four caves. [ 16 ] The inscriptions mentions that workers of Nedunchezhiyan I , a Pandyan king of Sangam period, (c. 270 BCE) made stone beds for Jain monks.
Vatteluttu probably started developing from Tamil-Brahmi from around the 4th or 5th century AD. [2] [9] [10] The earliest forms of the script have been traced to memorial stone inscriptions from the 4th century AD. [2] It is distinctly attested in a number of inscriptions in Tamil Nadu from the 6th century AD. [4]
Agate “Agate is earthy, warm and rich,” Salzer says, noting that it exists in many colors. “Look for antique Victorian banded Enlish and Scottish agates in deep orange, browns, cinnamon, and ...
An ancient Tamil inscription, supposed to be from the Chola period was found under a sewage canal connecting to Kalkere Lake in East Bangalore. A similar stone was at Kithaganur Village nearby and has been installed in a temple. The inscription hasn't been deciphered as yet, as it is written in an older form of Tamil. [17]
The charnockite rocks at St. Thomas Mount (about 60 m (196.9 ft) high above ground) is located in the southern part of Chennai city. Chennai, as the capital of Tamil Nadu, is very well connected by road, rail, sea and air with rest of the country and the world. The Chennai International Airport is 3 km (1.9 mi) away from the Mount.
[23] [24] [25] Epigraphic attestation of Tamil begins with rock inscriptions from the 3rd century BCE, written in Tamil-Brahmi, an adapted form of the Brahmi script. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The earliest extant literary text is the Tolkāppiyam , a work on poetics and grammar which describes the language of the classical period, dated variously between ...
A hero stone (Vīragallu in Kannada, Naṭukal in Tamil) [1] is a memorial commemorating the honorable death of a hero in battle. Erected between the second half of the first millennium BCE [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the 18th century CE, hero stones are found all over India.