Texts

Texts database last updated 2026-04-20 16:35.

This interface allows you to look for texts in the DHARMA collection. The search form below can be used for filtering results. Matching is case-insensitive, does not take diacritics into account, and looks for substrings instead of terms. For instance, the query edit matches "edition" or "meditation". To look for a phrase, surround it with double quotes, as in "old javanese". Searching for strings that contain less than three characters is not possible.

Per default, all metadata fields are searched (except "lang", see below). Metadata fields are (for now): "title", "editor", "editor_id", "author", "summary", "lang", "script", "repo", "ident". You can restrict search to a specific field by using a field prefix, as in editor:manu or title:"critical edition". Several clauses can be added successively, separated with whitespace. In this case, for a document to be considered a match, all query clauses must match. Try for instance editor:manu title:stone.

Note the use of quotation marks: the query editor:"emmanuel francis" matches all documents edited by Emmanuel Francis, but the query editor:emmanuel francis matches all documents edited by someone called Emmanuel and that also include the name Francis in any metadata field.

The "lang" field is special. If you look for a string that contains two or three letters only, as in lang:en or lang:san, it is assumed to refer to an ISO 639 language code, and an exact comparison is performed. If you look for a string longer than that, it is assumed to refer to a language name and the above-mentioned substring matching technique will be used instead. You can consult a table of languages here.

Documents 1–50 of 1598 matching.

Ablūr, Brahmēśvara temple, 1144 CE (Śaka 1067)

Antonella Santoro.

Languages: English, Kannada, Sanskrit.

Repository: Kalyāṇa Cālukya (tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSKalyanaCalukya01018.

Ablūr, Brahmēśvara temple, Cāḷukya-Vikrama year 26 (1104 CE)

Antonella Santoro.

Languages: English, Kannada, Sanskrit.

Repository: Kalyāṇa Cālukya (tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSKalyanaCalukya01012.

Ablūr, Brahmēśvara temple, Śaka 1142 (1219 CE)

Antonella Santoro.

Summary: This record is on a stone tablet outside the back of the temple of Brahmēśvara. The tablet is a vīragal or monumental slab, in memory of the death of two local heroes, Māca and Gōma, in battle, on the occasion of a cattle-raid at Ablūr. The inscription refers to the reign of the Dēvagiri-Yādava king Siṅghaṇa and to a time when a feudatory Siṅgaṇadēvarasa was governing the Banavāsi twelve-thousand province.

Languages: English, Kannada.

Repository: Kalyāṇa Cālukya (tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSKalyanaCalukya01007.

Ablūr, Sōmēśvara temple, about 1200 CE

Antonella Santoro.

Summary: This inscription is engraved on a stone tablet set against the wall on the right side inside the temple of Sōmēśvara. It does not mention the reign of any particular king, nor is it dated. The chief interest and importance of the record lies in Ēkāntada Rāmayya, who, according to legend, brought about a revival of the worship of Śiva.

Languages: English, Kannada, Sanskrit, Undetermined.

Repository: Kalyāṇa Cālukya (tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSKalyanaCalukya01005.

A copper plate at Kaṭṭepura

Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: BESTOW - Amandine Wattelier-Bricout's Post-doc project (BESTOW).

DHARMA_INSEC01011.

Aḍbhār Plates of Nannarāja II, undated

Natasja Bosma.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Dakṣiṇa Kosala (tfb-daksinakosala-epigraphy).