Iconography · Civic Standard · Non-claim · Non-violent

புலி இணை கொடி

The Joining Tiger Standard

The single, permanent canonical plate · PIK-01

One standard. One composition. One palette. Sealed in this plate. The tiger seated in stillness — strength without aggression. Memory without fading. Wordless on purpose: meaning carried by form, not by inscription.

Puli Inai Koḍi canonical flag plate. Ochre-red field, palmyra-green hero-stone, seated Tamil guardian tiger in gold leaf, single Karthigai flame above the tiger. Wordless — no inscription.

What this is — and what it is not

It IS

A civic study object in the Veli Studies iconography series.
A transformative reading of pre-1976 Tamil civilisational symbols.
Offered freely. Free to adopt, free to refuse, free to ignore.
Decentralised by design — no single centre, no king, no command.

It IS NOT

The flag of Tamil Eelam. The Pulikodi (1977) remains the flag of the dead.
An institutional or state emblem. TLTE adopts no flag.
A replacement, a successor, or a "version 2." It is a parallel reference.
A claim. Whether it is ever carried is a question for the people, not for us.

Lineage I

Seated guardian tiger

காவல் புலி

The tiger is one of the oldest Tamil civilisational emblems — attested in Sangam-era literature and South Indian coinage centuries before the Chola dynasty, and continuous through Pandya, Chera, Chola and later Tamil polities. Seated, calm, watchful. Far older than any 20th-century combatant emblem.

Lineage II

Sangam hero-stone

நடுகல்

Pre-Common-Era memorial stones for any kin who fell protecting the community. The original Tamil practice of decentralised remembrance — village by village, name by name.

Lineage III

Karthigai flame

கார்த்திகை தீபம்

One of the oldest documented Tamil festival lamps. Lit for the departed and the living. The continuity that was not broken.

Lineage IV

Palmyra & ochre palette

பனை · செம்மண்

Ochre-red earth, palmyra-green, gold leaf, cream. The colours of Tamil soil, coast and lamp-light — not the crimson-and-yellow of any combatant flag.

The same standard, in four settings

Not variations — the one canonical plate above, photographed in four civic contexts for share & study.

Dawn over a palmyra coastline
விடியல்
The standard at first light — outdoor field-test of palette, proportion, and wind.

Among the naṭukal at dusk
நடுகற்களின் நடுவே
Planted as one mark among many — the standard is not above the hero-stones, it is among them.

Beside a Tamil gopuram
கோயில் கொடிமரம்
Hanging from a temple kodimaram — civilisational continuity across many centuries of Tamil temple practice.

Civic remembrance walk
நினைவு ஊர்வலம்
Silhouettes only. No faces, no names, no uniforms — mourning made into civic memory.

Scan inspection — for study

Scan inspection sheet for the Puli Inai Koḍi showing the exact uploaded flag and central emblem with the tiger tail, legs, paws, lamp and stone arch preserved. — Scan-locked proof from the uploaded canonical image. Any printer, embroiderer, or die-maker should trace this emblem — not the older generated versions.

Wallpapers

Horizontal cinematic wallpaper of the Puli Inai Koḍi standard flying at dawn over an Eelam coastline. — Desktop · 1920×1088

Vertical mobile wallpaper of the Puli Inai Koḍi standard rising against a starlit dawn sky. — Mobile · 896×1920

Emojis · sticker pack

Three transparent-background PNGs at 512×512. The standard, the hero-stone with flame, and the seated guardian tiger as standalone civic marks.

Print pack · PIK-01

For professional printing

Rebuilt from the uploaded canonical scan. The older generated print files were removed because the emblem drifted. These files preserve the full seated tiger — tail, rear haunch, legs, paws, lamp, and stone arch — and should be used as the production reference.

Scan-locked horizontal Puli Inai Kodi production reference with the full tiger tail, legs and paws visible. — Horizontal flag · scan-locked 3 : 2
Exact canonical scan reference · JPG · 2400×1600
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Vertical hanging banner proof rebuilt from the same scan-locked emblem, preserving the tiger tail, legs and paws. — Vertical banner · scan-locked proof
Same scanned emblem · JPG · 1600×2400
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Exact scan crop of the central emblem preserving the full seated tiger, tail, legs, paws, flame and stone arch.

Relief guide derived from the exact scan crop for embossing, embroidery and raised-appliqué work.

Print Specification Sheet · scan-locked A4 PDF

Hand to a printer only as a reference pack. It states clearly that the emblem must be traced from the scan crop so the tiger tail, legs, paws, lamp, and stone arch are not lost again.

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Scan-locked v7 · old generated print files removed · trace the emblem, do not redraw from memory

Full asset pack — download & share

Canonical scan-locked plate · 3:2

PIK-01 · exact uploaded emblem

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Scan inspection sheet

Full tiger tail · legs · emblem proof

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Dawn — palmyra coastline

Contextual shot · 16:9

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Naṭukal field at dusk

Contextual shot · 16:9

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Tamil temple kodimaram

Contextual shot · 16:9

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Civic remembrance procession

Silhouettes only · no faces

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Wallpaper · horizontal

1920×1088 · desktop

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Wallpaper · vertical

896×1920 · mobile

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What this standard explicitly refuses

The 1977 LTTE combatant flag composition (roaring head, crossed rifles, bayonets, bullet-ring, wordmark).
The LTTE crimson-and-yellow palette. This standard is ochre, gold-leaf, palmyra-green, cream.
Any depiction of the tiger as roaring, attacking, snarling, or armed. This tiger sits and watches.
Any state, party, or institutional adoption. It is offered, not imposed.
Naming of any individual combatant of a proscribed organisation alongside the standard.
Uniform, rank, salute, drill — any combatant framing.

UK Terrorism Act 2000 s.13 prohibits arousing reasonable suspicion of LTTE support through display of LTTE iconography. It does not — and cannot — prohibit the seated Tamil guardian tiger, the Sangam hero-stone, the Karthigai flame, or the palmyra. These are documented Tamil civilisational symbols pre-dating the LTTE by many centuries — the tiger attested in Sangam-era Tamil sources, the hero-stone (naṭukal) by roughly 2,300 years, the palmyra immemorially.

Scholarly anchors

Tier A
The Cōḷas (2 vols)
K.A. Nilakanta Sastri · University of Madras · 1935 / rev. 1955
Tier A
Art of the Imperial Cholas
Vidya Dehejia · Columbia University Press · 1990
Tier A
The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom (Puṟanāṉūṟu)
G. Hart & H. Heifetz · Columbia University Press · 1999
Tier A
Memorial Stones: Origin, Significance and Variety (naṭukal tradition)
S. Settar & G.D. Sontheimer (eds) · IGNCA / Heidelberg · 1982
Tier A
The Brihadisvara Temple at Tanjavur (Chola murals & guardian-tiger reliefs)
UNESCO World Heritage Centre · 1987 / 2004
Tier A
Early Tamil Epigraphy
Iravatham Mahadevan · Harvard Oriental Series · 2003
Tier A
The Coinage and History of South India, vol. II (Chola tiger coinage)
Michael Mitchiner · Hawkins Publications · 1998

Sister plate

This plate sits beside நடுகல் புலி — The Watching Tiger of the Hero-Stone. Both are civic study objects. Neither is a flag of state. Together they form the iconography reference series.

Five Refusals · permanent law · non-removable

1.
No proscribed iconography
No LTTE flag, no LTTE composite emblem (roaring tiger head + crossed rifles + bayonets + bullet ring), no LTTE wordmark, no uniform insignia, no rank tabs, no martyr-cult framing. The Chola Puli Koḍi (c. 9th–13th c. CE), Sangam-era tiger imagery, hero-stone (naṭukal) tradition, and the mūvēndar triad (tiger · fish · bow) are civilisational symbols that pre-date the LTTE by ~1,100 years and are permitted — see /veli-studies/iconography/puli-kodi.
Anchor · UK Terrorism Act 2000 s.13 + s.12; Pwr v DPP [2022] UKSC 2 (strict liability). Carve-out: pre-1976 civilisational iconography documented in Tier-A scholarship.
2.
No randomised atrocity draws
Atrocity events appear only in fixed, curated, cited study sequences — never in a randomised, gamified, or 'pack-pull' context on any public surface.
Anchor · ECHR Art. 8 dignity; OHCHR trauma-informed-documentation guidance.
3.
No cash-out, no wagering
Min stays a non-tradable contribution marker. No secondary market is endorsed. No chance-for-prize loop is ever published.
Anchor · Gambling Act 2005 s.6; FCA PERG 2.7.
4.
No naming proscribed combatants on plates
Combatants appear only as Archetypes & Offices anchored to Tier-A citations. Real names are retained only for non-violent figures — clerics, journalists, lawyers, doctors, mothers of the disappeared — with full citation.
Anchor · UK Terrorism Act 2000 s.13 (strict liability for support); ICCPR Art. 19 protected speech.
5.
Sealed operational layer
No rules text, stat blocks, deck-builder, pack art, or marketplace appears on any public route. The operational layer is sealed in Vault RB-13 behind Founder + 4-of-7 trustee unwrap.
Anchor · TLTE Continuity Charter — Sealed Surface Doctrine.

Amendable only by the Continuity Council (unanimous) + Founder, with public publication within 30 days.

Published by VinMin Ltd as an educational study set. Free to download, free to share, free to adopt or refuse. TLTE adopts no flag.