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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.
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Documents 1–50 of 3393 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land after purchase for worship offerings (arcanābhoga).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00192.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Commission of a sluice by three individuals.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00459.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Rock inscription recording the construction of a sluice (tūmpu), the provision for its maintenance and a donation to the bhaṭarar.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00084.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Kampaiyaṉār.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00430.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Cattima Vakilavaṉ Vīraiyar.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00435.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of paddy for food-offerings (tiruvamutu) and donation of one or two (?) plates.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00460.
Renato Dávalos.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0675.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00035.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00032.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Perumāḷ temple, Ampal, Nākappaṭṭiṉam taluk and district. On a doorjamb which was reused as a beam for the entrance door. Beginning of the regnal year lost, then a year opposite to one, opposite to one, opposite to one of a king whose name is lost.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00504.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Caṉaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00188.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Kaliyirāmaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00189.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation statement. It is not clear what exactly has been constructed as the inscription is on a stone slab erected in front a temple, but might have been brought there from another place.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00436.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A biruda (glorifying sobriquet) engraved on a sluice. Probably the name of the commissioner of the construction of the sluice.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00421.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Source Language (other), Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01003.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Recording a transaction concerning a donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00230.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation of a pāḻi, that is, a stone-bed or a hermitage.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00452.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv01p0i0043.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv01p0i0044.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Inscription recording the pious donation (dharma) of Nācciyāṇaṉ. Engraved on the pedestal of a bronze Buddha statue kept in the Art Institute of Chicago (access no. 2021.240).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00169.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: 17th-century inscription recording the foundation of a tank. Engraved on the back of a 12th-century stone Buddha statue first noticed in Pōḻakkuṭi, possibly brought there from Nākappaṭṭiṉam, and presently kept in the Art Institute of Chicago (access no. 1964.556).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00168.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv01p0i0045.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00047.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This inscription is inside the second gōpura, left of entrance. It ecords a sale of land to the temple by two brothers through the mediation of Paradēśi-muttirai Vāmadēva Paṇṭāram, for the requirements of worship and the restoration of the Kanakasabhā-maṇḍapa. .
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00702.
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.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Records a resolution of the 98 sub-castes of Left-hand and Right-hand castes to meet to hear complains about royal officials, Brahmins and Veḷḷāḷars.
Languages: Source Language (other), Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv28p0i0034.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Āpatsahāteśvara temple, Āṭutuṟai, Tiruviṭaimarutūr taluk, Tañcāvūr district. On the wall in the recess between the sanctuary and the ardhamaṇḍapa of the northern façade.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00006.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Āpatsahāteśvara temple, Āṭutuṟai, Tiruviṭaimarutūr taluk, Tañcāvūr district. On the wall in the recess between the sanctuary and the ardha-maṇḍapa of the southern façade.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00007.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lacunose. Appears to record a donation in gold from taxes on land.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00462.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1937-38 (p. 26): “Records gift of the taxes kallāṇakkāṇam and vītanāḻi leviable from the village, by Vikramāditya-Mahābali-Vāṇarāya, at the request of the queen Atippirasādi alias Vijjiyakkaṉār, for the maintenance of the tank at Avilāli.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00330.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00256.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for supplying water to a temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00225.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00203.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a donation of gold for offering food during a festival.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00522.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00523.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land for food-offerings and of gold for a lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0380.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp and of land to provide sacred food-offerings. Very similar (content, individual mentioned) to INSPallava00507.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00506.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp and of land to provide sacred food-offerings. Very similar (content, individual mentioned) to INSPallava00506.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00507.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00508.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a donation of land for offering food during a festival.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00524.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a donation of gold for providing food a the time of the Karttikai festival in Tiruviḻicil.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00505.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription. Fragment. Regnal year only.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00521.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv04p0i0381.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya01018.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Cākūḻaṉ Vēḷāḷaṉ and recording a donation of land in honour of him. Slab exhibited in Vellore ASI Museum in 2009.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00451.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Viṉaiyittaṉ and donation in honour of the deceased hero. Slab exhibited in Vellore ASI Museum in 2009.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00425.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Registers an undertaking given by the residents of Caṇpai, comprising the ninety-eight sub-castes of the Right-hand and left-hand castes, to pay contributions for the maintenance of a temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv22p0i0103.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Source Language (other), Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01010.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of rice to a god’s temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00464.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Rock inscription recording ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00198.