Agara inscriptions and hero stones

The Agara inscriptions and hero stones are three passages of Kannada text inscribed on memorial stones found in or around Agara, a Panchayat-village located on the Outer Ring Road near Koramangala and HSR Layout in Bengaluru, India. More generally, hero stones are memorial stones commemorating the honourable death of a hero in battle, and are located all over India. The Agara inscriptions date from the 9th to the 16th century CE and record donations made during the reigns of the Western Ganga dynasty and Karnataka (Vijayanagara) empire. One of them, the 9th-century Sriyamayya inscription, refers to the fixing of sluices for a tank, and although the inscription does not explicitly name the Agara Tank its documented location supports the conclusion that it does refer to the Agara Tank. As the inscription is approximately 1150–1200 years old, this makes it one of the earliest documented references to a tank in Bengaluru. All three inscriptions and hero stones from the Agara area have been documented and published, and two are recorded in scholarly sources. However, the physical condition of two of them is unknown.

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