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Documents 1351–1400 of 2893 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Parākrama Pāṇḍya Year 31+9, Kanni 1, ba. di. 10 Sunday, Tiruvādirai = Sep. 19, 1462 A.D. However, the star was Magha.
This records the construction of temple complexes from base to finial (upāṉādi-sthūpi-pariyaṉtam) such as garba-griha, ardhamaṇḍapā, mahāmaṇḍapā, and sōpānam. It also refers to the temple services, processions and festivals and in order to meet the expenditure for the above services the temple was donated the village of Kāśikkuvāyttanallūr, as dēvadāna. The gift took effect from the 41st regnal year of the king Parākrama Pāṇḍya.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0003.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Kulōttuṅga I Year 40: 1110 A.D.
This inscription records the origin of the iḍaṅgai class, as described by themselves. It is said that inorder to destroy the demons (who disturbed) his sacrifices sage Kāśyapa made them (ie, the iḍangai group) to appear from the fire pit. Accordingly they protected the sacrifices. Now it is stated that Chakravartin Arindama honoured the learned sages by carrying them in a chariot and led them to a agarm newly established by him. On this occasion they (ie., the iḍangai class) were made to take their seats at the backside of the car and to carry the slippers and umbrellas of those sages. Eventually, with these brāhamaṇa sages they were also made to settle down in the villages of Tiruveḷḷarai, Pāchchil, Tiruvāśi, Tiruppiḍavūr, Ūṟṟattūr and Kāraikkāḍu of Seṉṉivala-kūṟṟam. They received the generic class name Iḍaṅgai because the sages (while they got down their cars) were supported by them on their left side. The ancestors of their sect had lost everything they had in jungles and bushes and were ignorant of their origin. Having now learnt about their origin the members of 98 sects of the Iḍaṅgai class entered into a compact, in the 40th year of the king, and promised to behave like the sons of the same mother and share what good or evil might befall on any one of them.
If anything derogatory happens to the Iḍaṅgai class, they would jointly assert their rights. It is also recorded that during the congregational meetings of the Iḍaṅgai, insignia like horns, bugle and parasol must be displayed. In order to facilitate identification all were instructed to wear their distinguishing symbols, viz., the feather of crane and the loose-hanging hair. The horn and the conch-shell were to be sounded in front of them and bugle blown. Those who acted in contravention to these rules were to be treated as enemies. One Tirunallūr-uḍaiyāṉ Iḷaiyakōyil Tiruchchiṟṟambalam-uḍaiyān wrote the document at the order of five nāṭṭar.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0489.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription (No. 266 of 1901) is engraved on the east wall of the maṇḍapa in front of the shrine in the Tāndōṉṟīśvara temple at Perumbēr and is dated in the 7th year of Vīrarājēndra I. It records a grant of land to the Tiruttāṉtōṉṟi-Mahāśrīkaraṇa-Īśvara temple at Perumbēṟūr alias Tribhuvananallūr. As in another Perumbēr inscription (No. 78 above), Perumbēṟūr is here called a hamlet of Śrī-Madurāntakachaturvēdimaṅgalam, the modern Madurāntakam. Line 16, which is incomplete, mentions Vīra-Śōḻaśēri, a portion of the city which is also referred to at the end of No. 78 above.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0084.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Parākrama Pāṇḍya Year 2+23 = 1447 A.D.
The inscription begins with the meykīrtti, Pūmiśai vaṉitani etc, of the king Parākrama Pāṇḍya and his construction of big temple for the (god) Viśvanātha at Teṉkāśi. It also records the performance of daily worship, food-offering (amudhu-sāttupāḍi) garland, anointment, headcloth (parivaṭṭam), to burn a lamp and special worship of the deity. The record further stipulates the performance of processions and festivals and in order to meet the expenditure for the above services, the king donated dēvadāna lands at Tenvāri-nāḍu, Parākramapāṇḍyanallūr, and Vīrapāṇḍyanallūr.
The record excludes the lands given as dēvadāna of Tirukutrālamuḍaiya-nāyanār temple in Pārakramapāṇḍyanallūr and other tiruviḍaiyāṭṭam lands of different temples. The highway (peru-vaḻi) which goes from Tāraṇi to Tañjāvur is also mentioned in the record.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0004.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription (No. 165 of 1902) is engraved on the right of the entrance into the east wall of the prākāra of the Vāmanapurīśvara temple at Tirumāṇikuḻi in the Cuddalore tāluka1 of the South Arcot district. This village is called Udavi-Māṇikuḻi by Tiruñāṉasambandar, and Udavi-Tirumāṇikuḻi in some of its inscriptions. According to the subjoined record (l. 3 f.) it belonged to the district of Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu, and according to other inscriptions to Mēlkkāl-nāḍu, Mēṟkāṉāḍu or Mēṟkā-nāḍu, a subdivision of Vaḍakarai-Rājēndra-Chōḷa-vaḷanāḍu, Virudarājabhayaṁkara-vaḷanāḍu,2 or Rājarāja-vaḷanāḍu.
The inscription is dated in the 3rd year of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III. on a day which corresponds to the 12th August A.D. 1180.3 It records the gift of 32 cows for a lamp. The donor was a native of Kūḍal, which was situated in the same district as Tirumāṇikuḻi and seems to be identical with the modern Kūḍalūr (Cuddalore).4
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0085.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Parākrama Pāṇḍya. Year 28, Vṛischika 4, ba. di. 2, Sunday, Mṛigaśīrisha 21st November 1450 A.D. However, the star was Ārudra.
This records a gift of 28 mā of land by the Pāṇḍya king on the day of his asterism, mṛigasīrsha and records the institution of special service called Parākramapāṇḍyan-saṉdhi and provision made for food offerings (amudhu-sāttūpāḍi) daily worship, garland and head cloth (tirupari-vaṭṭam) to the god of the Viśvanātha temple at Teṉkāśi in Teṉvāri-nāḍu. The land was entrusted to the tāṉattār temple for carrying out the charity.
One Kiḍārattūr-uḍaiyāṉ figures as signatory of the record.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0005.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription (No. 457 of 1902) is engraved on the west wall of the second prākāra of the great Śaiva temple of Naṭarāja at Chidambaram1 in the South Arcot district. It is dated on the 88th day of the 9th year of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III. and records that the king sanctioned a grant of land to the temple by a certain Kēraḷarājaṉ (ll. 6 and 10). The land granted was situated in two hamlets of Chidambaram, the first of which bore the name Kaḍavāychchēri alias Tillaināyaganallūr (l. 6). Kaḍavāchchēri is found on the map about 2 miles south of Chidambaram,2 and Tillaināyaganallūr survives as the name of a neighbouring village which has now been joined to Uśuppūr.3 The second hamlet, Śāttaṅguḍi alias Mahīpālakulakālanallūr4 (l. 7), I am unable to identify.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0086.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Parākrama Pāṇḍya Year 31+1, Kaṟkaṭaka 21, śu. di. 14, Thursday, uttirāḍam = 1454 A.D. Other details are irregular.
It records an agreement relating to the tax-free gift of land as dēvadāna to the tāṉattār of the Viśvanātha temple in Teṉkāśi in Teṉvāri-nāḍu from the 32nd regnal year of the king, Parākrama pāṇḍya, in the two villages Paimpoḻiṟpapaṟṟu and the other in Vaḍavāri-nāḍu.
Engraved in continuation of this record, another inscription which is totally different in contents, enumerates the gift of cows by different individuals (name given) in deference with an agreement (ōlai-piḍipāḍāga). One Kiḍārattūr uḍaiyān figures as the signatory as usual.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0006.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription (No. 458 of 1902) is engraved on the same wall as the preceding one (No. 86). It is dated on the 118th day of the 11th year of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III. and records that the king sanctioned a grant of land to the temple by a certain Vāḷuvarāyaṉ (ll. 5 and 12). The land granted was situated in the same two hamlets of Chidambaram which were mentioned in No. 86, viz. Mahīpālakulakālanallūr (l. 6) and Kaḍavāychchēri alias Tillaināyaganallūr (l. 8). Chidambaram itself is referred to as Perumbaṟṟappuliyūr in Rājādhirāja-vaḷanāḍu (l. 5), and its Śiva temple as Tiruchchiṟṟambalam-uḍaiyār (l. 9.).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0087.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Parākrama Pāṇḍya Year 31+2, Vrischika 9, ba. di. 2, Thursday, Mṛigaśīrisha = 1455 A.D. Other details are irregular.
This incomplete inscription records the provision made for the anointment of the deity, ghee for food offerings (neyamudhu) and oil to the lamp and some other gifts (details not known) for the god Viśvanātha.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0007.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription (No. 66 of 1892) is engraved on the left of the entrance to the north wall of the fourth prākāra of the Raṅganātha temple on the island of Śrīraṅgam near Trichinopoly. It is dated in the 19th year of Kulōttuṅga-Chōḷa III. on a day which corresponds to Tuesday, the 12th November A.D. 1196,1 and recorded an order of the king, the contents of which are lost.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0088.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Parākrama Pāṇḍya alias Kulaśēkharadēva Years: 15: Śaka 1416 Kārttigai, Mīṉa 15, Full moon, Wednesday Attam = 21, March 1494 A.D. However, the day was Friday.
This incomplete inscription records a gift of 1(1/2) mā of tax-free land, house-site (maṉai), garden and other perquisites to Rāśakularāmapperumāḷ and others including Vīrapāṇḍyadēvar, thereon for the services of watch and ward (tirumēṉikāval) of the god Viśvanātha at Teṉkāsi in Teṉvāri-nāḍu, commencing from sixteenth year of rainy season (kār paśānam).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0008.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The inscription registers a gift of 100 sheep for a lamp by Kaḍambamādēvī, the wife of the chief Vikki-Aṇṇaṉ, who was the recipient of several royal honours and of the hereditary title Śembiyaṉ Tamiḻavēḷ from the Chōḷa king Rājakēsarivarman who ’overran Toṇḍai-nāḍu’ and was the conqueror of ’kings that possessed many elephants (pal-yāṉai-kōkkaṇḍaṉ)’1 and from the Chēra king Sthāṇu Ravi.
The Tiruvālaṅgāḍu plates state that the Chōḷa king Āditya I. defeated the Pallava Aparājita and captured Toṇḍai-maṇḍalam from him. We also know that Āditya’s son, Parāntaka I., was called Parakēsarivarman and there is not therefore much doubt that the Rājakēsarivarman referred to in this inscription is Āditya I. The fact that he and the Chēra king Sthāṇu Ravi conferred honours on Vikki-Aṇṇaṉ suggests that these Chēra and the Chōḷa kings might have been contemporaries.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0089.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: King: Jaṭilavarman alias Tribhuvanachakravarttin Parākrama-Pāṇḍya alias Kulaśēkharadēva Pāṇḍya Year Śaka 1419 śu. di. 3, uttiram = 1497 A.D.
This inscription records that a certain Nallaperumāḷ Śaivasikhāmaṇi Bhaṭṭaṉ, who was a priest at the Viśvanātha temple at Dakshiṇakāśi in Teṉṉāri-nāḍu forfeited his right of worship in the temple for inexplicable reasons, in the fifteenth regnal year of the king. The privileges appended with the right of worship such as the ownership of house, gardens and its surroundings and also one and half mā of tax-free land at Ilāñjapaṟṟu, owned by the temple, and other privileges were now conferred on Pichcha Bhaṭṭaṉ Paḍikkāśuvaittāṉ belonged to Bhāradvāja-gōtra and Bōdhayana-sutra. The latter was also conferred the right of cultivation of the lands given. It appears that when the kinsmen (ñādi) of Śaivaśikāmaṇi Bhaṭṭaṉ refused to accept the responsibility (of worship in the above temple after the latter lost his right) this arrangement had been made. It is also stated that the new priest should discharge his duties while enjoying the privileges.
Koḍumalūr-uḍaiyāṉ figures as the signatory of the record.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0009.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This archaic inscription belongs to the 10th year of the same Kampavarman whose name occurred in No. 5 above, and records that Śaḍaiyaṉ, who was also mentioned in No. 5, made over 400 kāḍi of paddy to the villagers of Uṭakal, who pledged themselves to feed two Brāhmaṇas daily from the interest, which amounted to 100 kāḍi of paddy per year.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0008.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 2nd year of Rājakēsarivarman and records that the assembly of Nālūr, a brahmadēya of Śēṟṟūr-kūṟṟam, sold for 25 kāśu, the aṅgāḍikkūli, i.e., the market fees of the bazaar street, to the temple of Tirumayāṉam. On palaeographical grounds we may attribute the record to the time of Rājakēsarivarman Āditya I.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0090.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This is a record, in archaic characters, of Rājakēsarivarman (perhaps Āditya I.) dated in his 2nd year. It registers gifts made by the merchants (nagarattār) of Kumaramārtāṇḍapuram to meet the cost of repairs to the enclosure (called) Maunakumaramārtāṇḍaṉ and the gōpura of Milāḍuḍaiyārpaḷḷi. From No. 199 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1907 it appears that Kumaramārtāṇḍaṉ was a surname of the Pallava king Nandippōttaraiyar. In the word Milāḍuḍaiyārpaḷḷi we may have a possible reference to the Śaiva saint Meypporuṇāyaṉār also called Milāḍuḍaiyār. As the usual imprecation paṉmāheśvararakṣai does not occur at the end of the inscription, it is much more probable that Milāḍuḍaiyārpaḷḷi was a Jaina temple than a Śaiva shrine called after Milāḍuḍaiyār.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0091.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This is an incomplete record. It mentions Vallanāḍu alias Jayaṅgoṇḍa Pāṇḍiyanallūr. Seems to record the allotment of shares of nañjey, puñjey, nattam lands besides pond, house-sites to the following brāhmanās viz., Maṅgalūr-Sōmanāthabhaṭṭaṉ, Sentirattu-Jñana Eṭṭukūra-śridharabhaṭṭaṉ, Śrī Puḷḷūr Uṭbāhu-Sundarabhaṭṭaṉ, Karuñjey Narasiṅgaṉ, Perumayyalūr Dharmarājaṉ, Kaṇḍiyūr Tiruvēṅgaḍa uḍaiya-rājanārayana Brahmarāyaṉ etc., of various gōtra and sūtras.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv39p0i0001.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: This inscription states that the Kaikkōḷars and other Iḍaṅgai members made some contribution for burning a lamp in the same temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv39p0i0217.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 14th year of Rājakēsarivarman and provides for feeding the female Jain ascetic Kanakavīrakurattiyār, who was a disciple of Guṇakīrtti-Bhaṭāra, and her pupils. Veḍāl, called Viḍāl [alias] Mādēvi-Ārāndimaṅgalam in the inscription, is said to have been situated to the east1 of Śiṅgapura-nāḍu. The archaic characters in which the record is written would indicate that Rājakēsarivarman must be identical with Āditya I.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0092.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription, dated in the 24th year of Rājakēsarivarman, registers a grant of land for the upkeep of a tank at Neṟkuṉṟam on the eastern side of Śiṅgapura-nāḍu by Nambiyamallaṉār, son of Nṛipatuṅgamaṅgalappēraraiyaṉ. The name Nṛipatuṅgamaṅgalappēraraiyaṉ and the archaic characters of the inscription make it very probable that the record is one of Rājakēsarivarman Āditya I.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0093.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: The record belongs to the 24th year of the early Chōḷa king Rājakēsarivarman and has to be assigned to Āditya I. on palaeographical grounds. It registers a gift of gold by Aḍigaḷ Gaṇḍaṉ Māṟambāvai1 , queen of Nandippōttaraiyar of the Pallavatilaka race. The fact that this Pallava queen made a grant in the reign of the Chōḷa king suggests that the Pallavas had been completely subdued by this time, as stated in the Tiruvālaṅgāḍu grant and that Nandippōttaraiyar, the husband of Māṟambāvai, was also dead.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0094.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 3rd year of Parakēsarivarman and registers a gift of gold by a certain Gaṇḍarāditta Pallavaraiyaṉ to the temple at Tiruvāmāttūr, which was a dēvadāna in Mīvaḻi-Vāvalūr-nāḍu, a subdivision of Aruvānāḍu. Gaṇḍarāditta Pallavaraiyaṉ was evidently an officer of Gaṇḍarāditya who is known from copper-plate records to have been the second son of king Parāntaka I. Parakēsarivarman of this record may have, therefore, to be identified with Parāntaka I.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0095.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: In this inscription which is dated in the 3rd year of Parakēsarivarman, we have a reference to the construction of the Śiva temple at Tiruchchenduṟai which was a brahmadēya suburb of Īśānamaṅgala, by Pūḍi Ādichchapiḍāriyār (Ādityapiḍāri). This lady is here distinctly called the daughter of Teṉṉavaṉ Iḷaṅgōvēḷār (another name of Maṟavaṉ Pūdiyār)1 and the queen of Arikulakēsariyār, the son of Śōḻa-Perumāṉaḍigaḷ (i.e., Parāntaka I.). Consequently, Parakēsarivarman to whose reign the record belongs is Parāntaka I. It may be noted that the 60 kaḻañju of gold granted by Pūdi Ādichchapiḍāri for sacred offerings to the god, was weighed by a stone called after Veḍēlviḍugu which was the surname of the Pallava king Teḷḷāṟṟeṟinda Nandippōttaraiyar.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0096.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription records that in the 4th year of Parakēsarivarman, two residents of Kaḍuttalai in the country called Irumaḍichchōḻar Kaṉṉāḍaga (Karṇāṭaka), gave four kaḻañju of gold for feeding a devotee in the Jain temple on the hill at Vaigāvūr in Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu which was a subdivision of Palakuṉṟakōṭṭam. The name Irumaḍichchōḻar Kaṉṉāḍaga indicates that the country in which Vaigāvūr was situated, was so called after Irumaḍichchōḻa who is perhaps to be identified with Parakēsarivarman in whose reign the record is dated. Irumaḍichchōḻa means ‘the twice (powerful) Chōḻa’ as Mummaḍichchōḻa, the surname of Rājarāja I. means ‘the thrice (powerful) Chōḻa’. Parakēsarivarman Parāntaka I. was actually the second powerful king in the Vijayālaya line.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0097.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 10th year of Parakēsarivarman. It registers gifts of sheep for lamps, made by Śembiyaṉ Mārāyaṉ, a perundanam of Vīraśōḻa Iḷaṅgōvēḷār of Koḍumbāḷūr, to the temple of Kaṟkuḍi in Nandivanmamaṅgalam. Kaṟkuḍi as the ancient name of Uyyakkoṇḍāṉ Tirumalai occurs in the hymns of the Dēvāram. Parakēsarivarman of this inscription has been identified with Parāntaka I. in the Epigraphical Report for 1908-09, page 88.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0098.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This interesting record registers a gift of gold made by a military officer for strengthening the bund of a tank, by depositing on it the silt-removed from that tank. The gift, however, appears to have been utilized subsequently for feeding four Brāhmaṇas in the local temple, for the merit of the four heroes who fell in a battle on the occasion when the donor Tīraṉ Śeṉṉippēraraiyaṉ of Araiśūr made a frontal attack with his colleagues on the enemy, in a fierce battle (astikkaḍai) fought at Vēḷūr between Perumāṉaḍigaḷ (i.e., Parāntaka I.) and the allied Pāṇḍya and Ceylon kings. The result of the battle is not stated; but from the Udayēndiram plates published above, in Volume II, pages 375 ff., Parāntaka I. is known to have conquered Madura after defeating its ruler the Pāṇḍya king Rājasiṁha and to have repulsed an army of the king of Laṅkā (Ceylon), thereby earning for himself the surname Saṅgrāmarāghava. The Ceylon king who at this time must have sent his army in support of the Pāṇḍya could have been no other than Kassapa V. who, according to the traditional account given in the Mahāwamsa, would have reigned from A. D. 906 to 916 (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for July 1913, page 525 f.). The commencement of the reign of Parāntaka I. has been fixed by Professor Kielhorn to lie between 15th January and 25th July A.D. 907.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0099.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: This interesting record contains an order which Rājarāja I. issued at (his capital) Tañjāvūr on the 124th day of the 24th year of his reign, and which was engrossed on the 143rd day of the same year. This order deals with defaulters of land revenue in villages held by Brāhmaṇas, Vaikhānasas and Jainas in the Chōḷa, Toṇḍai and Pāṇḍya countries. The villagers were authorized to confiscate and sell the land on which no taxes had been paid for two full years.
The royal order was written by the secretary Rājakēsarinallūr Kiḻavaṉ, or, as he is called in two of the Tañjāvūr inscriptions, Kāṟāyil Eḍuttapādam.1 It was signed by the chief secretary Mummuḍi-Chōḷa-Brahmamahārāja, and by Mummuḍi-Chōḷa-Bhōja. These two officers are mentioned in the large Leyden grant2 and in inscriptions of the Tanjore temple.3 Their original names were Kṛishṇa Rāma and Īrāyiravaṉ Pallavayaṉ. During the reign of Rājarāja I. they bore the titles Mummuḍi-Chōḷa-Brahmamahārāja and Mummuḍi-Chōḷa-Bhōja, which are derived from Mummuḍi-Chōḷa, a surname of Rājarāja I. After the accession of Rājēndra-Chōḷa I. they received the additional titles Rājēndra-Chōḷa-Brahmamahārāja and Uttama-Chōḷa-Pallavaraiyaṉ.4
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv03p0i0009.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1023.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1024.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1027.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1030.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: North wall of the central shrine in the Trivikramaperumāl temple.
Vijayanagara, Narasiṁhadēva, Śaka 1393, Vikṟiti, Aṟpaśi 13, Monday, trayōdaśi, Aśvati (irregular) = 1470 A.D.
The details of date viz., are irregular as the star Aśvati cannot occur on the 13th tithi in the month of Aippaśi.
This inscription refers to the collapse of the mukhamaṇḍapa, outer wall (tirumadiḷ), and the gōpura of the Tiruviḍaikaḻināyanār temple at Tirukkōvalūr, in the Vaḻudilampaṭṭu uśavaḍi for several Years due to the disturbances caused by the Oḍḍiyas (i.e. Oḍḍiya-kalabai) and the repairs to them carried out by Aṉṉamarasagaḷ, the agent of Sāḷuva Narasiṁhadēva. It further records that the lands that once belonged to the temple were restored and made tax-free and the services to the god revived by Aṉṉamarasar. Almost similar copiesof this inscription are found at Nerkunam (ARE. No. 213 of 1935), Arakandanallur (ARE. No. 11 of 1935), Siddalingamadam (ARE. No. 262 of 1937) etc.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv41p0i0001.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1227.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1246.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1285.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1289.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1292.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0131.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0132.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1338.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1339A.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0133.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0134.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0135.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0137.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
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DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1388.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1389.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i0138.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv04p0i1390.