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Documents 6051–6100 of 6521 total.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for daily food offering for a god’s temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00497.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Tiruneṭuṅkaḷanātar temple, Tiruneṭuṅkaḷam, Tiruveṟumpūr taluk, Trichy district. On a pillar, in the western gallery.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00503.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Tiruneṭuṅkaḷanātar temple, Tiruneṭuṅkaḷam, Tiruveṟumpūr taluk, Trichy district. On a pillar, in the western gallery.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00502.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Construction of a hall (maṇṭakam) for the Jain temple of Tirunaṟuṅ Koṇṭai and of the Jain temple (kōyil) of Caturmukaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00455.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold to two Jain shrines (paḷḷi), that is, those of Tirunaṟuṅ Koṇṭai, probably mentioned in the present record in a corrupt form or an incorrect reading, and Caturmukaṉ mentioned, along with Tirunaṟuṅ Koṇṭai, in another record from the same place (see INSPallava00455, line 1).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00453.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of a flower garden (nantavaṉam).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00427.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift from Cēṭṭiyār and Uṭaiyār temple right-owners.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00005.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining two perpetuel lamps.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00142.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Grant of privileges and honours (place of honour during temple service, temple service charge) to Nāṟpatteṇṇāyiramāṇikkam, a temple woman (tēvaraṭiyār), in return for her donations.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00018.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Tiruppāmpuram, Naṉṉilam taluk, Tanjavur district, Śeṣapurīśvara temple. On the base of the temple (?). 22nd regnal year of Tirupuvaṉaccakkaravattikaḷ Śrīrājarājatēvar = Rājarāja II or III.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00192.
Emmanuel Francis, Valérie Gillet.
Summary: Donation of gold coins for the upkeep of lamps.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00501.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Gift of taxes on the donor’s tēvatāṉam birthday festival for food-offerings, reciters (viṇṇapam cevvār) of the holy hymns (tiruppatiyam), and their companions (tēvarāṭiyār), the campāṉ (?), and the drummer (mattaḷakkāraṉ).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv25p0i0099.
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.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A list of 16 birudas engraved on two pillars. Most probably birudas of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, as the list includes the birudas Atyantakāma and Atiraṇacaṇḍa and as the paleaography matches his other known inscriptions (see Venkatasubba Ayyar 1943, p. 12).
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00067.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: This inscription states that the Kaikkōḷars and other members of the Left-Hand caste made some contribution for burning a lamp in the same temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv39p0i0217.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Recapitulative inscription recording an inventory of earlier endowments.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv12p0i0096.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya10008.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya10009.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation of a temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00245.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation, after purchase, of a land to a temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00246.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land for maintaining a perpetuel lamp and for food-offering to a god.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00143.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Registers an agreement by the assembly of Parāntakanāṭu and the Right-Hand and Left-Hand ninety-eight sub-castes, regarding the payment of dues to the king.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv34p0i0059.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00445.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for supplying paddy and ghee.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00156.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining two perpetual lamps.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00160.
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.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of three villages as a newly-named devadāna and regulation thereof. The paddy from these lands is given to Śivabrāhmaṇas, drummers, those who pluck flowers, and singers of Tēvāram. This is an explicit later copy of the original Pallava inscription.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00132.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land for food-offering.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00133.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Rock inscription recording ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00091.
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_INStfaSIIv04p0i0309.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: 11th-century stone inscription, inscribed on a wall (south wall of the second prākāra), recording the name of a garden.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00162.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Grant of land rights (kāṇi) by royal order tirumukam to Rājarājappiccaṉ and his relatives to daily sing holy hymns (tiruppatiyam). It seems that Rājarāja Piccaṉ and one of his relative join a group of 16 blind men, who were already in charge of singing hymns.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0749.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Orders that the Left-Hand and the Right-Hand castes of Tiruvaṇṇāmalai should enjoy the same privileges.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0155.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Gift of land for performing various services during festival, including adhyayana.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0165.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records various donations of Kṛṣṇadevarāya at the temple of Tiruvaṇṇāmalai: garments and jewelry; various buildings; food offerings and temple services; appointment, among others, of sixty dancing girls, ten reciters (otuvār) of sacred hymns (tiruppāṭṭu), two brahmins performing adhyayana.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00023.
Renato Dávalos.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0163.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land (the village of Mērāṉ Paḷḷi) as tiruppaḷḷi-y-eḻucci-p-puṟam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv08p0i0127.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00134.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00041.
Dorotea Operato, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Assessment of the conduct (vṛtti) of Rathakāras or Kammāḷars, based on the Śāstras, Āgamas, and Purāṇas examined by Brāhmaṇas residing in Pāṇṭikulāntaka-caturvedimaṅkalam.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv17p0i0603.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining perpetual lamps.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00123.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for performing a ritual.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00179.
Emmanuel Francis, Valérie Gillet.
Summary: Donation of gold for supplying food offerings.
Tiruvīraṭṭāṉeśvara temple, Tiruvatikai, Paṇruṭṭi taluk, Cuddalore district. On a pillar in the maṇḍapa in front of the central shrine. There are donations by other royal figures on pillars in the same maṇḍapa: SII 8.309 registers a donation of gold by Pallava Nandivarman III; SII 12.73 records a gift of gold by the queen of Nṛpatuṅgavarman, Vīramahādevi.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00167.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Renovation and donation of gold for maintaining two perpetual lamps.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00162.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Slab inscription recording the donation of paddy and gold by Maṇiyaṉ, a devotee of the Mahādeva of the Akattiśvaram temple in Aviṉūr.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00071.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: See ARIE 1934-35 (p. 17): “Characters belong to about the 8th century A.D. Records gift of an oil-mill (cekku) by a certain Kaṇavaṉ, a resident of Atinalarūr (Atinallūr?).”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00364.