Tim, nice little stone man:-).
David, thank you for showing a Mongolian one. I did not know they had them as well.
Ian, yes I do remember very well. That is why I started this thread, to see if others on the forum also had an interest in Hero stones.
Somewhere I read that these stones can be found all over India, but mostly in the south.
Translating the texts on the stones is likely not easy, as the language used is centuries old, and the translater will, no doubt, also have to have some historical background.
Is your mail address the same?
In Hindu Arms and Ritual Robert Elgood writes about these stones on pp. 13 and 131. He also quotes Baden Powell, who in the first volume of the Journal of Indian Art and Industry in 1896 wrote: "It will be interesting when, some day, some antiquarian is found to reproduce the various forms of weapons as they appear in the sculpture".
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