Texts

Texts database last updated 2025-10-20 16:40.

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", "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 51–100 of 2271 matching.

Cellūr, bronze of Buddha meditating in vīrāsana

Emmanuel Francis, Vincent Tournier.

Summary: Dhammapada verse inscribed on Buddhist bronze.

Language: Pali.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00001.

Cellūr, bronze of standing Buddha in abhaya

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Label on a Buddhist bronze.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00025.

Cempiyaṉmātēvi, Kailāsanāthasvāmin temple, time of Parakesarivarman, year 12

Nicolas Cane, Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Sur l’adhiṣṭhāna de la face sud de l’ardhamaṇḍapa (débute sous la niche de Naṭarāja et court sous celle d’Agastya). Uttama Cōḻa, a .r. 12, mois solaire de Kumbha (Māci) = février-mars 983. Gillet 2024: #148. Cempiyaṉmahādevi, Nagapattinam taluk, Tanjavur district, Kailāsanātha temple. On the base of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa. 12th regnal year of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 983 A.D.).

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Cempiyaṉ Mahādevī (tfa-cempiyan-mahadevi-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSCempiyanMahadevi00010.

Cendalūra grant, time of Kumāraviṣṇu, year 2

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: ...

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00011.

Cēṅkālipuram, time of Nandivikramavarman, year 3

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land for food offering (amutu) to a god (Mahādeva of the Tirukāḷīśvara).

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00438.

Ceṅkōṭṭai, Śiva temple, inscription of Kulaśekharadeva alias Parakrama Pāṇḍya

Emmanuel Francis.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPandya01009.

Ceṉṉivāyakkāl, time of Nantippōtairayar, year 21

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a Brahmin during a raid on a maṭha.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00141.

Centalai, Sundareśvara temple, time of Māṟañ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 10

Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Sundareśvara temple, Centalai, Tiruvaiyāṟu taluk, Tañcāvūr district. On a pillar in the maṇḍapa at the entrance of the temple.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPandya00509.

Centalai, Sundareśvara temple, time of Māṟañ Caṭaiyaṉ, year 16

Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Sundareśvara temple, Centalai, Tiruvaiyāṟu taluk, Tañcāvūr district. On the southern doorjamb of the Gaṇeśa shrine. The inscription is engraved on a stone which was probably re-used because the inscription on the opposite doorjamb (SII 6.444) records the construction of this shrine at a much later period, probably during the Nāyaka period. The last syllable at the end of each line is not visible, but it appears in brackets in the edition of SII.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPandya00505.

Centalai, time of Nantippōttaraiyar, year 12

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land for food-offering and for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00125.

Ceṇṭiyampākkam, time of Kaṅkatiyaraicar, no date

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero whose name is lost.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00433.

Ciṉṉakkāvaṉam, time of Nandivarman, year 18

Emmanuel Francis.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00502.

Ciṉṉamaṉūr plates (larger set), time of Rājasiṃha, year 14 + 2

Emmanuel Francis.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPandya10006.

Ciṉṉamaṉūr plates (smaller set)

Emmanuel Francis.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPandya10004.

Ciṉṉanākapūṇṭi, time of Narasi[ṁhavarman], year (2)

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: See ARIE 1943–45 (p. 23): “Fragment. In characters of about the 9th century A.D.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00349.

Ciṉṉapāḷampākkam, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 19

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Cave inscription recording the foundation of a temple for Siṁhanandi Bhaṭṭāra by Ciṟiyanaṅkaiyār in the name of Vīrattoḻilar.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00449.

Ciṉṉayyāṉ Pēṭṭai, time of Kampavarman, year 3

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00309.

Ciṉṉayyāṉ Pēṭṭai, time of Kampavarman, year 6

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00310.

Ciṉṉayyāṉ Pēṭṭai, time of Kampavarman (?), year 6

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00528.

Cīrkāḻi, Brahmapurīśvara, fragment, no king, no year