page_title: Paliya
section_title: Importance
hierarchical_section_title: Paliya / Importance
caption_attribution_description: English: Paliyas (Hero Stones) belonging to Mistris of Kutch, dating back to 1178 AD standing near Village Pond at Dhaneti, a Village in Kutch founded by Mistris of Kutch
context_page_description: The Paliya or Khambhi is a type of a memorial found in western India especially Saurashtra and Kutch regions of Gujarat state of India. They are also found in Sindh region of Pakistan. They mostly commemorates the death of a person. These stone monuments have symbols and inscriptions. There are several types of memorials including dedicated to warriors, sailors, sati, animals and associated with folklore. They are important in ethnography and epigraphy.
  Those dedicated to warriors fall under the term hero stone, of which examples are found all over India.
context_section_description: The memorials provides ethnographic information as well as epigraphy. They are social structures which commemorates and reveres heroes of the society. They are also important historical documents as well as a document of iconography which survived over centuries. It provide information about customs, cultures and beliefs of erstwhile societies. They also provides information of economic, religious or political events. These memorials are associated with ancestral worship so the local folklore associated with it can be identified and documented. They also give information about cultural traditions such as Sati. The types of clothes, weapons and vehicles of the time period can be also identified. As the memorial inscriptions has place and year, the evolution of language and method of recording time can also be documented. Rarely they are used to mark burial place of wealth as people would not desecrate the place of worship.
caption: Paliyas belonging to Mistris of Kutch at Dhaneti in Kutch, dating back to 1178 AD
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