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Documents 1–50 of 53 matching.
Margherita Trento, Renato Dávalos.
Summary: ARIE: Records the royal order, communicated through the feudatory Kalvāyi-Nāḍāḻvāṉ, remitting the taxes due on a village called Karuṅkāḍu alias Śaṅkaranārāyaṇa-maṅgalam, a dēvadāna of the temple of Śrī-Kuvalayachandira-yīśvaram-uḍaiya-Nāyaṉār of Śrī-Kayilāsam at Tirupperunduṟai alias Pavitramāṇikka-chaturvēdimaṅgalam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00733.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00035.
Margherita Trento, Renato Dávalos, G. Vijayavenugopal.
Summary: Built in. Seems to record a provision of rights to cultivate ⟨kāraṇmai⟩ for the recitation of the tiruvācakam in front of the image of Tiruvātavūr Mutaliyār. This record seems to provide what may be the earliest inscriptional attestation of the title Tiruvācakam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00712.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This inscription is carved on a stone slab on the left side of the entrance of the main gopuram in the Ātmanāthasvāmi temple at Āvuṭiayārkōyil, in today’s Pudukottai district. The inscription is not explicitely dated to the Śaka (or other) era, but it is likely from the early 17th century as it records a promise to the temple made by two subsequent Toṇṭaimāṉ rulers of Aṟantaṅki, Accutappa Nāyakkar (1672-1614) and Irakunāta Nāyakkar (1614-1640).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00731.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00013.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00037.
Margherita Trento.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00038.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00042.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift of the chief of the Kōpalas to the temple in Tirupperuntuṟai, via the mediation of a certain Ampalattāṭum Paṇṭāram.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00014.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00010.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records the donation of an entire maṭam, with its land and people, to the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00049.
Margherita Trento.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00045.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00011.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records the donation of a village in order to maintain a shelter and feed the pilgrims in Kāci (Varanasi).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00050.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: The grant included a second plate, now lost.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00031.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records a gift of the Sethupathi king to the god in Avudayarkoyil.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00026.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento, S.A.S. Sarma, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Outside of Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilOutsideTN00017.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento, S.A.S. Sarma, Vigneshwaran Muralidaran.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Outside of Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamil-outside-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilOutsideTN00003.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records donation made by the king of Arantaṅki, Rakunāta Vaṇaṅkāmuṭi Toṇṭaimāṉār. Even though the grant is dated Śaka year 1525, the plate appear to be a later copy, based on the material aspects (double line on the contours of the grant) and the paleography.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00030.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00036.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records a donation by Vicaiya Rekuṉāta Cētupati Kātta Tēvar to the goddess in Tirupperuntuṟai aka Avudaiyarkoil. The donation consists in a share of the revenue of the pearl fisheries of Maṉṉār.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00003.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Avudaiyarkoyil temple.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00007.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00034.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records the donation of part of the income of the pearl fisheries at Maṉṉār and Tūttukkuṭi to the temple in Āvuṭaiyārkōyil. The donor is allegedly Tirumalai Nāyakkar (r. 1623-1659), but the date on the plate (śaka 1461, A.D. 1539) does not correspond to the period of his reign.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00004.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento.
Summary: Possibly one of the foundation inscriptions of the temple. Installation of the image of Turkkai (Sanskrit Durgā) by Vaikāvuṭaiyāṉ Ceṉṉi Nalla Nākavēḷāṉ, probably corresponding to the adjacent niche.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00028.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento.
Summary: Sale of rights to a tēvaraṭiyār called Mātumai, alias Kōvaṇavarkulā, to sing the first song (mutal pāṭṭu) of the Tiruvempāvai, carry out the hunting festival (tiruveṭṭai) and climbing up the processional car (tiruttēr).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00030.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Margherita Trento.
Summary: Registers the endowment of the village named Kāccuvakkuṭi as a devadāṉam to the temple of Nalla-nāyaṉār by the well-known Bāṇa chief and magnate Āṟakaḷūr-uṭaiya Vāṇakōvaraiyār Poṉparappiṉāṉ Rājarājatēvaṉ, alias Makatai-nāṭāḻvāṉ (Skt. Makātēcaṉ).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00037.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records the additional endowment of a village to perform pūja in honor of Tirumalai Nāyak and Cētupati Kātta Tēvar and the mother and father of the donor, Tirumalaiya Cētupati Rakunātat Tēvar.
Languages: English, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00016.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grants records a donation that reiterates and enlarges the donation in Nāṭṭuccēri grant, Śaka year 1582.
Languages: Tamil, Telugu.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00002.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records an endowment made by Cuppiramaṇiya Tirumalai Cētupati Rakunāta to Ampalattāṭum paṇṭāram for performing pūja in Avudaiyarkoil to honor his ancestors and Tirumalai Nāyakkar.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00018.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00033.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a donation made at the time of Tirumalai Cētupati Kātta Raghunātta Tēvar at the feet of a certain Rājaśrī paṇṭāram, for the sake of pūja, as well as taking care of the garden and the maṭam, in the temple of Tirupperuntuṟai aka Āvuṭaiyarkōyil, .
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00019.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00008.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift by merchants of red and white cloth.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00006.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00009.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift from Cēṭṭiyār and Uṭaiyār temple right-owners.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00005.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records donation made by two caste groups - the Kōpālar and the Pōyaṇṭar (palanquin bearers).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00029.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records an endowment made by Cuppiramaṇiya Tirumalai Cētupati Rakunāta to Ampalattāṭum paṇṭāram for performing pūja in Avudaiyarkoil to honor his ancestors and Tirumalai Nāyakkar.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00017.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records an endowment made by Rakunāta Cētupati Kāttatēvar for maintaining an agrahāra and a maṭam.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00021.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records a gift of the Sethupathi king to the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam and the Gomuktishwara temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00023.
Renato Dávalos, Margherita Trento, G. Vijayavenugopal.
Summary: See SII 14.161 for a summary of both inscriptions.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00160.
Renato Dávalos, Margherita Trento, G. Vijayavenugopal.
Summary: The inscription appears to be composed of two interconnected sections, dated one year apart. The internal coherence of this inscription and SII 14.160 suggests that they are two parts of the same register. The first section (SII 14.160) records the conversion of a brahmadeya that was endowed as a devadāna by a certain Ammaṉ. This change on the nature of the land appears to have entailed new taxes on the land that the members of the community (ūrār) were required to pay. The taxes here registered were intended to be collected in order to support the feeding of twenty-five brāhmaṇas, a reciter of the Śivadharma, and to provide the provisions (nivantakaḷ) necessary for the ritual worship of the temple deity. The taxes seem to have been collected either in the form of paddy derived from the donated land or as payments in gold coins (kācu). The second section, here presented, closely mirrors the content of the first (SII 14.160) but introduces a new set of signatories and appears to be the actual implementation of the royal order (tirumantira ōlai), likely executed one year after the initial resolution.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00161.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00041.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, N. Ramaswamy, Margherita Trento.
Summary: Land donation, after sale/purchase, by Tāyaṅ Kaṭaṉ, lord of Vīramāṅkuṭi, to the Lord (āḷvār) of Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai, for appointing hymn singers, gardeners, and flower garnishers, for daily food offerings for the god and for feeding Śivayogins and Paṉmāheśvaras (great devotees of Śiva) on seven specified festival days.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10003.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, N. Ramaswamy, Margherita Trento.
Summary: Land donation, that is, remission of taxes by provision of gold for tax payment, by Tirukkaṟṟaḷi Piccar to the god (deva) of Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10002.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, N. Ramaswamy, Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai10014.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: A recapitulative set of copper plates listing fifteen different grants recording donations to the Ātmanāthasvāmi temple in Avudaiyarkoil, also known as Tirupperuntuṟai, which is nowadays property of the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam. The grants are dated from Śaka year 1360 to Śaka year 1448; they are however not ordered chronologically in the set.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00001.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: Records the endowment made by various mahajāṉaṅkaḷ for the midnight worship of god Tējinivanēśvarasvāmi of Tiruvīḻimiḻalai. The endowment was made in terms of makamai from the kuṭivāram paddy.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00040.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00044.
Renato Dávalos, Margherita Trento, G. Vijayavenugopal.
Languages: English, Tamil, Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv38p0i0131.