Ponsorimalai, also known as Sorimalai, is a hill in
Vennandur block
Vennandur block is a revenue block in the Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu, India. Vennandur block is located in north eastern region in Namakkal district. It has a total of 24 panchayat villages. Vennanthur town is the head quarter o ...
of
Namakkal district
Namakkal District is one of the 38 districts (an administrative district) in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. The district was bifurcated from Salem District with Namakkal town as headquarters on 25 July 1996 and started to function independentl ...
in
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a state in southern India. It is the tenth largest Indian state by area and the sixth largest by population. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu is the home of the Tamil people, whose Tamil language ...
, India.
Geology
Ponsorimalai
is located northwest of
Alavaimalai and southeast of
Kanjamalai
Kanjamalai is a hill located 14 km west of Salem District of Tamil Nadu, India. The estimated terrain elevation above sea level is about 1643
Iron ore
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extra ...
.
North and West side foot hill limits are surrounded by villages of Salem district, South and East side foot hill limits are surrounded by villages of Namakkal district.
History
![YS Ponsorimalai](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/YS_Ponsorimalai.jpg)
A 15th-century
Jain
Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle being ...
inscriptions in the hills bear couplet 251 from the “Shunning meat” chapter (Chapter 26) of the
Kural text
The ''Tirukkuṟaḷ'' ( ta, திருக்குறள், lit=sacred verses), or shortly the ''Kural'' ( ta, குறள்), is a classic Tamil language text consisting of 1,330 short couplets, or kurals, of seven words each. The tex ...
, indicating that the people of the
Kongu Nadu region practiced
ahimsa and
non-killing as chief virtues.
References
Hills of Tamil Nadu
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