Texts

Texts database last updated 2026-01-23 20:35.

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 1051–1100 of 7342 total.

Elavaṟṟu grant of Amma II

Dániel Balogh.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Eastern Cālukya (tfb-vengicalukya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSVengiCalukya00035.

Ēḻāyiram Paṇṇai grant, Śaka year 1721

Margherita Trento.

Summary: This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00011.

Ellappuṭaiyāṉ Paṭṭi, time of Ciṅkaviṇṇapparumar, year 25

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: See ARIE 1975-76 (p. 77): “Records the death of Montaikaḷ Komāracattiyāru, the ruler of Kaḷappāḷur in a fight at Mokkappāṭi in Puṟamalai-nāṭu. In characters of the 6th century.”

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00466.

Ēḻu Cīmai Mākāṇattū nāṭṭār grants, Śaka year 1632

Margherita Trento.

Summary: A set of two grants issued on the same year (Śaka 1632) recorded on the same copper plate.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00043.

Elūra grant — reign of Devavarman, year 13

Arlo Griffiths, Vincent Tournier.

Languages: Middle Indo-Aryan, Source Language (other).

Repository: Early Andhra (tfb-eiad-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSEIAD00159.

Elūru grant of Maṅgi Yuvarāja

Dániel Balogh.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Eastern Cālukya (tfb-vengicalukya-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSVengiCalukya00072.

Elvānāśūr, Grāmārdhanātha Temple, time of Vijayarāya Mahārāya

Dorotea Operato.

Summary: It states that, as a result of the collection of kāṇikkai from the ryots of the Right-hand and Left-hand classes by the officers of state on each change of regime or administration, the former became impoverished and ran away from their homes to other kingdoms consequently worship and festivals in temples ceased and the land became infested with disease causing intense mental anguish to the people.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INStfaSIIv22p0i0161.

Embossed Image of Śiva in Gold Leaf from Central Java (8th c. CE)

Arlo Griffiths.

Language: Old Malay.

Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSIDENKBukateja.

Ēmpalam Oil-Press

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Statement ownership and/or commission of an oil-press.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00434.

Encoding template for inscription

Chloé Chollet, George Cœdès, Saveros Pou.

Language: Old Khmer.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSCIK00258.

Encoding template for inscription

Chloé Chollet, George Cœdès.

Language: Old Khmer.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSCIK00405.

Encoding template for inscription

Chloé Chollet, George Cœdès.

Language: Old Khmer.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSCIK00550.

Encoding template for inscription

Chloé Chollet.

Language: Old Khmer.

Repository: Khmer (tfc-khmer-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSCIK01068.

Encoding template for inscription

Antonella Santoro.

Language: Undetermined.

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

DHARMA_INSKalyanaCalukya01008.

Eṇṇāyiram, time of Nṛpatuṅga, year 2

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Cave inscription recording the donation of goats for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00446.

B. Lewis Rice: Epigraphia Carnatica vol. 1

Anonymous editor.

Language: Undetermined.