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 ...

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 ...

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. YS Ponsorimalai2

History

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 {{Namakkal-geo-stub