poems are pervaded with a warrior ethic. The of the hero of the puram poems was pukal (glory, and a heroic death was greatly valued. It was that the spirit of a warrior who died in battle in paradise. A poem in the Purananuru suggests the bodies of warriors who did not die in battle cut with swords before the funerary rites, to death in battle. practice of vattakirutal was one in which a king committed ritual suicide by starving to death, accompanied by those who had been to him during his lifetime. worship of memorial stones (natukal) was a of the importance of the heroic ideal. stones were erected in honour of heroes who fighting valiantly in battle; the spirit of the fallen was believed to reside in these stones. option (d) is the correct answer.