0 a short piece of writing or a poem about a dead person, especially one written on their gravestone --
1 a short piece of writing or a poem about a dead person, esp. one written on a tombstone (= the stone over the place where someone is buried) --
Examples of the scripts appeared most often on epitaphs and monuments, although other fragments sometimes surface.
Inscribed on the "nishidhigal" were epitaphs that immortalized and described the scholarly and saintly achievements of the desceased one, man or woman.
The rest of the collection is filled with epitaphs, riddles, dedicatory epigrams, and the like.
The term also included epitaphs and commemorative verses.
Such epitaphs were frequently in metrical form, usually either hexameter or elegiacs.
By the 1970s more inscriptions were discovered including 23 epitaphs belonging to a cemetery.
There they lie in peace away from their homeland, and the testimonial epitaphs on their tombs signify their endeavor and devotion to humanity.
A program that looks at interesting epitaphs and the stories behind them.
