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Documents 101–150 of 1213 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: The following label inscriptions in Vaṭṭeḻuttu and Tamil characters are engraved below the images of the Jaina gods sculptured in half-relief on the rock near the cavem at Āṉaimalai. They are attributable to about the beginning and end of the 9th century A.D., and as they must have been incised in Pāṇḍya times only, their texts are reproduced below.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0104.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: The following label inscriptions in Vaṭṭeḻuttu and Tamil characters are engraved below the images of the Jaina gods sculptured in half-relief on the rock near the cavem at Āṉaimalai. They are attributable to about the beginning and end of the 9th century A.D., and as they must have been incised in Pāṇḍya times only, their texts are reproduced below.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0105.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: The following label inscriptions in Vaṭṭeḻuttu and Tamil characters are engraved below the images of the Jaina gods sculptured in half-relief on the rock near the cavem at Āṉaimalai. They are attributable to about the beginning and end of the 9th century A.D., and as they must have been incised in Pāṇḍya times only, their texts are reproduced below.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0106.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: The following label inscriptions in Vaṭṭeḻuttu and Tamil characters are engraved below the images of the Jaina gods sculptured in half-relief on the rock near the cavem at Āṉaimalai. They are attributable to about the beginning and end of the 9th century A.D., and as they must have been incised in Pāṇḍya times only, their texts are reproduced below.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0099.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is dated in the 2nd year of Nandippōttaraiyar and records the construction of the mukha-maṇḍapa by Śelvavāṇarayaṉ, son of Amaṉi-Gaṅgaraiyar, who was ruling over Vittūr. It may be noted that Paḷḷikoṇḍa was called Vichchūr1 in ancient times.
Palaeographically, the present record may be attributed to the reign of Nandivarman III. In a later record viz., of the 10th year of the Chōḷa Parakēsarivarman from Tiruchchattuṟai in the Tanjore district, figures a chief of Paṅgaḷanāḍu named Bhuvani-Gaṅgaraiyan.2 Since Paḷḷikoṇḍa was in Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu, Amaṉi (Avani)Gaṅgaraiyar of the present inscription may have been an earlier member of the family of Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu chiefs.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0045.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription dated in the 3rd year of Nandippōttaraiyar may be assigned to Nandivarman III. It registers a gift of 200 nāḻi of rice for feeding 100 persons on the day of Tiruvādirai, by Gaṇavatimāṉ alias Pagaichchandira Viśaiaraiyaṉ of Vaḍuvūr in Mīpuḻai-nāḍu. This inscription indicates that the limits of the Pallava empire still continued to extend as far south as the Pudukkottai State.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0046.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 3rd year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman who may be identified with Nandivarman III. It states that a resident of the village Tigaittiṟal built the temple of Tigaittiṟal-Vishṇugṛiha at Kiḷiñelūr in Ōymā-nāḍu and gave 300 sheep for maintaining a sacred lamp and 2 pieces of land (śeṟu) made tax-free, for providing offerings to the god. In later inscriptions the god is called Vīṟṟirunda-Perumāḷ (A.R. Nos. 163 and 168 of 1919).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0047.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription was partially copied in 1905 and then completely in 1910 after removing a wall obstructing a portion of the record. The middle portion of the inscription is damaged being chiselled away right through to construct a drain. It appears to be dated in the 6th year of Pallava-Mahārāja alias Danti-Nandivarman of the Bhāra[dvāja-gōtra] and Brahmakshatra family. The king’s name, in the form given here, implies that Nandivarman was the son of Dantivarman. The inscription seems to record the praise of a certain Śellikkōmāṉ Mallavān who is described as the nephew of Paraśirāman and the uncle of Māṟpiḍugu Iḷaṅgōvēḷāṉ Śāttaṉ. The record is stated to have been composed by a certain Peruṅgāvidi Śaḍaiyaṉpaḷḷi.
Puḷḷis are marked in the record in some cases.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0048.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This copper-plate record issued in the 6th year of Nandivarman (III) registers a gift of the village Śrīkāṭṭuppaḷḷi, to the Śiva temple built by Yajñabhaṭṭa, at the request of Chōḷa-Mahārāja Kumārāṅkuśa, for the expenses of daily worship and for a feeding house. This Chōḷa-Mahārāja and Vijayālaya, the founder of the revived Chōḷa line at Tanjore are taken to have belonged to one and the same family. This is doubtful and he should propably have belonged to the family of Rēnāṇḍu Chōḻas.1
Published in South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. II, pp. 507-510.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0049.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is a fragmentary inscription of Nandivarman dated in his 13th year. It registers a gift of five kaḻañju of gold, by the daughter-in-law (marumagaḷ) of Ayyakki Paṅgaḷa-aḍigaḷ, who was probably a chief of Paṅgaḷa-nāḍu which comprised a portion of the present North Arcot district.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0050.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is worn out in the middle and it is dated in the 14th year of Nandivarmma-[Mahārāja]. It seems to assign a third share of the income from the local lake to Paramēśvara, by the assembly (perumakkaḷ) of Kaḷattūr in Kaḷattūr-kōṭṭam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0051.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is a damaged record of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman dated in his 15th year. It seems to register some agreement given by a temple servant residing at Veṇbēḍu to a certain Mōḍaṉ, who had made an endowment of one kaḻañju of gold. Veṇbēḍu may be identified with the village of the same name in the Chingleput taluk.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0052.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This damaged inscription is dated in the 17th year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman and it mentions the Śēḻiya-Vāṇiyar of Kuṉṟattūr, who evidently made provision for offerings to the god on Tiruvādirai and amāvāsyā days, through the sabhā of Tiruveḷḷikīḻuḍaiya (Mahādēva). This is the earliest inscription in the temple and it probably belongs to Nandivarman III. In a later inscription of the place the god is called Tiruveḷḷikīḻmēya-Nāyaṉār.1 Chūtavana mentioned in the Udayēndiram plates of Nandivarman is probably identical with Māṅgāḍu.2
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0053.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: The beginning of this inscription is lost, but from palaeography and the letters Nan traceable in the first line, it may be assigned to Nandivarman III. It is dated in the 18th year and registers the gift of 96 sheep by the shepherds (kōṭṭamaṉṟāḍis) of Āmūr-kōṭṭam for burning a perpetual lamp before the god Perumā[ṉa*]ḍigaḷ ‘who was pleased’ to stand at Viḻupperundāya-Vishṇugṛiham in Paḍuvūr.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0054.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription of the 19th year of Nandippōttaraiyar begins by stating that it is a copy of an old stone record found in the temple. A later record in the same place mentions that Śembiyaṉ-Mādēviyār, the mother of the Chōḷa king Uttama-Chōḷa, repaired the temple at Tirukkōḍikkā and that she then ordered the re-engraving of the old inscriptions found on the walls before renovation. The Chōḷa queen, by this policy, has preserved for posterity as many as 26 inscriptions in this temple, which would otherwise have been irretrievably lost.
The present inscription is a palimpsest and it registers a gift of 100 kalam of paddy by Āḻiśiṟiyaṉ for maintaining a sacred lamp in the temple of Śiṟunaṅgai-Īśvarāgaram at Tirukkōḍikā. The priests of the temple agreed to maintain the lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0055.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This record is engraved on a hero-stone bearing the figure of a Brahman being pierced by an arrow near the neck. It is dated in the 21st year of Nandippōttaraiyar ‘who obtained the kingdom after defeating (his enemies at) Teḷḷāṟu’. The inscription is damaged and it refers to a certain Māvali (i.e., a Bāṇa chieftain) and to a raid causing the destruction of a maṭha, in saving which a Brahman hero named Śattimuṟṟattēvaṉ met with his death. The record mentions the temple of Arindigai-Īśvaram built at Parāntakapuram, which must have been respectively named after the Chōḷa kings Ariñjaya and his father Parāntaka I who flourished a century later. From palaeography also the record may be assigned to the 10th century A.D. It, therefore appears to be a later copy of the original record. The mention of a Bāṇa chief outside the Bāṇa territory is noteworthy.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0056.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 22nd year of Nandippōttaraiyar ‘who defeated (his enemies) at Teḷḷāṟu’. It records an agreement given by the assembly sabhā of Tiruppāṟṟuṟai to burn two perpetual lamps (in the temple of) Mahādēva-Bhaṭāra at Tiruppāṟṟuṟai for 60 kaḻañju of gold received by them from the king for the purpose.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0057.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 22nd year of Nandivarmarāja. It registers a purchase of 1 1/2 vēli of land called Vaṇṇakkaviḷāgam from the assembly of Tribhuvanamādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam by Śandippeliyār (probably a person in charge of the conduct of ceremonies in the temple), for burning a lamp and for providing offerings to the god Tiruvaigāvuḍaiya-Mahādēva. The mention of Tribhuvanamādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam as the surname of Tiruvaigāvūr, which is only found in later inscriptions clearly indicates that this is not an exact copy of the original record, though in the last line this epigraph is stated to be a copy of a stone inscription. Judging from palaeography, the inscription may be assigned to the 11th century A.D.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0058.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is said to be a copy of a record of Kāḍuveṭṭigaḷ Nandippōttairaiyar reengraved in the 4th year of a Chōḷa king named Parakēsarivarman who may be identified with Uttama-Chōḷa. It records a gift of 60 kaḻañju of gold for the maintenance of a perpetual lamp called Kumaramārttāṇḍa1 in the temple. The title ‘Kumaramārttāṇḍa’ has been tentatively attributed to Pallavamalla, but it may, with greater probability, be applied to Nandivarman III.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0059.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is dated in the year opposite to the 4th of some king whose name is, however, not mentioned. It states that the sabhā of Nallimaṅgalam agreed to maintain a perpetual lamp in the temple of Mahādēva at Tiruttavattuṟai in Iḍaiyāṟṟunāḍu, from a gift of 60 kāśu made by Nandippōttaraiyar ‘who fought the battle of Teḷḷāṟu and gained victory (in it).’ Judging from palaeography, the record may be assigned to the 10th century A.D. Consequently this inscription has to be treated as a later copy of the original record which probably belonged to the time of Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ alias Varaguṇa-Pāṇḍya I. The donor may easily be identified with Nandivarman III from the reference to Teḷḷāṟu.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0060.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription which is highly damaged, is dated in the 10th year of Nandivarman. It mentions a certain Viśayanalluḻā[ṉ], who may be identified with the person of the same name noticed as the elder brother of Kambaṉ Araiyaṉ, the builder of the well at Tiruveḷḷaṟai in the 4th year of Dantivarman.1 He also figures as the ājñapti of the Paṭṭattāḷmaṅgalam grant of Nandivarman II2 (No. 37 below). Hence Nandivarman of the present record may be identified with Nandivarman II Pallavamalla.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0032.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This copper-plate charter in Grantha and Tamil characters was found at Kaśākuḍi near Kāraikāl in French India. It is dated in the 22nd year of Nandivarman II, also known as Pallavamalla, Kshatriyamalla, Nayadhīra, and Śrīdhara, and records a gift made by the king, at the request of his minister Brahmaśrīrāja, of the village Koḍukoḷḷi which was later surnamed as Ēkadhīramaṅgalam,1 to a Brāhmaṇa named Jyēshṭapāda-Sōmayājin of the Bhāradvāja-gōtra residing at Pūniya in Toṇḍāka-rāshṭra.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0033.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This record is dated in the 37th year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman who, from the palaeography of the inscription and the high regnal year quoted in it, may be identified with Pallavamalla. It registers an agreement made by the gaṇa of Payiṉūr to remove annually the silt from the big tank of the village for the interest on 6,400 kāḍi of paddy received by them by the standard measure poṟ-kāl, from Nāgaṉ, a merchant of Uḻakkuṇi residing at Māmallapuram. The document is signed by Śēṭṭanandi, evidently a member of the gaṇa. The village Paiyaṉūr is very close to Mahābalipuram and the earliest epigraphical reference to ‘Māmallapuram’ is to be found in the present inscription.
It may be pointed out that the epithets ‘Vijaya’ and ‘Vikramavarman’ added to his name by Nandivarman, were invariably adopted by his successors.1
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0034.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 52nd year of Vijaya-Nandivarman. It records the death of Gaṅgadiyaraiyar Kaṉṉāḍu Peruṅgaṅgar, (the chief) of Kaṟkāṭṭūr, who at the instance of his uncle (māmaḍi), the Bāṇa chief, fought on the occasion of the Pallava invasion against Perumānaḍigaḷ (i.e. the Western Gaṅga king), when (the fortress of) Peṇkuḻikkōṭṭai was destroyed. From the high regnal year quoted in the inscription, the king may be identified with Nandivarman Pallavamalla.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0035.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is an incomplete copper-plate record from Taṇḍantōṭṭam near Kumbhakōṇam in the Tanjore district, dated in the 58th year of Nandivarman (II). It is engraved in Grantha and Tamil characters and registers the gift of the village Dayāmukhamaṅgalam, named after the donor Dayāmukha, to 308 learned Brahmans with additional provision for worship in the Śiva and Vishṇu temples of the village and for reciting the Mahābhārata in the temple hall. The praśasti in the grant was drawn up by Paramēśvara surnamed Uttara-kāraṇika. The seal of this record is published on plate VII for the first time now.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0036.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: PAṬṬATTĀḶMAṄGALAM GRANT OF NANDIVARMAN: 61ST YEAR.
Like the previous record, this is also engraved in Grantha and Tamil characters. It is dated in the 61st year of Vijaya-Nandivikramavarman and registers a grant of 16 vēli of land which, together with the 24 vēli granted previously, was constituted into a village under the name Paṭṭattāḷmaṅgalam and given to a number of Brāhmaṇas at the instance of Maṅgala-Nāḍāḻvāṉ, an officer of the king. The ājñapti of the grant viz., Vijayanalluḻāṉ of Ālappākkam is identical with the person of the same name figuring in an inscription of Nandivarman at Tiruveḷḷaṟai1 in the Trichinopoly district. The engraver of the grant was Śrī-Daṇḍi, son of Viḍēlviḍugu Pallavap-peruntachchaṉ of Aimpaṉaichchēri in Kachchippēḍu.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0037.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is dated in the 65th year of Nandibōdhuvarman (Nandippōttavarman) who belonged to the Pallava-vaṁśa. It registers a gift of pasture land by Iḍaivaḻañjāṉ Kaṇḍaṉ, one of the Nagarattār of Māmallapuram, after purchasing it from Kōṉ-Kaṇḍaṉ, son of Iḷan Paduvuṇār, the headman of Kuṉṟattūr in Āmūr-kōṭṭam. The villages of Kuṉṟattūr and Āmūr are near Mahābalipuram in the Chingleput district.
The regnal year given in this record is the highest known date for Nandivarman (II).
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0038.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription which consists of seven Sanskrit verses engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters, records that the cave temple was constructed by king Atiraṇachaṇḍa and that it was called ‘Atiraṇachaṇḍēśvara’ after his surname. Three of the verses in the present record are also found in Nos. 20 and 21 above and contain the birudas: Atyantakāma, Śrīnidhi, Kāmarāga and Śrībhara. Other surnames of the king were Raṇajaya, Anugraśīla, Kālakāla, Samara-Dhanaṁjaya and Saṁgrāmadhīra. Since most of these epithets including Atiraṇachaṇḍa are also applied to Rājasiṁha in his inscription at Conjeeveram,1 the present record may be assigned to him. Dr. Hultzsch took Atiraṇachaṇḍa as a title of Nandivarman Pallavamalla,2 but considering the palaeography and the architectural style of the maṇḍapa, it seems better to take it as referring to Rājasiṁha.3
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0024.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is a Nāgarī copy of the first six verses of the previous inscripition.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0025.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is engraved in florid Pallava-Grantha characters in the form of a helix on a cubical pillar of the Pallava type, supporting the gōpura in front of the temple. The pillar seems to have belonged to some other temple in the vicinity. Of Pallava structural monuments in the Chingleput district, only those at Mahābalipuram and Conjeeveram are known. The pillars at Vāyalūr and Tiruppōrūr1 suggest the existence of other such monuments in the district.
The present record purports to give the genealogy of Pallava kings from Brahmā down, through fifty-four generations, to king Rājasiṁha. The last verse of the inscription suggests that it was intended to perpetuate the accession of Rājasiṁha (Narasiṁha II) to the throne.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0026.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This record engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters on two detached pillars, gives the birudas of a Pallava king. From the florid variety of the alphabet1 used and from the occurrence of the titles Atyantakāma, Atiraṇachaṇḍa, etc., the king may be identified with Narasiṁha II whose identical birudas are also found engraved in the Kailāsanātha temple at Conjeeveram which is definitely known to have been constructed by him. As Tiruppōrūr is close to Mahābalipuram, it is possible that the pillars belonged to a structural temple of the time of Narasiṁha II built somewhere in this locality and may have been fixed up in their present position in the Kandasvāmin temple at a later date.
First Pillar.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0027.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is a damaged record consisting of six Sanskṛit verses in praise of the Pallava king Rājasiṁha or Narēndrasiṁha Atyantakāma who is given a number of epithets which help to identify him with Narasiṁha II. The Shore Temple at Mahābalipuram and the Tāḷapurisvara temple at Panamalai are representative of the type of architecture that prevailed in the time of Narasimha.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0028.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This incomplete record in florid Pallava-Grantha characters gives the praśasti of king Rājasiṁha, son of Ēkamalla i.e. Paramēśvara I. From the existence of this inscription and of another consisting of a single Sanskrit verse which is identical with the last verse of the Kailāsanātha inscription of Rājasiṁha (South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. I, No. 24) and with the 3rd verse of the Shore Temple inscription of the same king at Mahābalipuram (No. 28 above), it may be presumed that the temple of Tāḷapurīśvara was constructed during his reign, A photo-litho of this record is given in the Epigraphical Report for 1916, facing page 114.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0029.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is a single Sanskrit verse which is identical with the last verse of Rājasiṁha’s inscription1 round the Rājasiṁhēśvara shrine in the Kailāsanātha temple at Conjeeveram. It is a benedictory verse wishing long rule for Rājasiṁha, who has the birudas: Raṇajaya, Śrībhara, Chitrakārmuka, Ēkavīra, and Śivachūḍāmaṇi.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0030.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: Like the Mahēndravāḍi and Śīyamaṅgalam labels of the Pallava king Mahēndravarman I, the birudas of Narasiṁhavarman I are engraved in Pallava-Grantha characters on the Dharmarāja-ratha. As usual, the list of surnames commences with the actual name of the king Śrī-Narasiṁha. The birudas give an indication of the king’s power, wealth, valour, personal charm, ambition, liberality etc. As the temple is called ‘Atyantakāma-Pallavēśvaragṛiham’ in a label engraved in florid characters resembling those found in the Gaṇēśa rock-cut temple in the same village attributable to Paramēśvaravarman I, it may be presumed that the work on this ‘ratha’ was continued in the reign of Paramēśvaravarman and also in that of his son Rājasiṁha, considering the architectual evolution noticeable here from the simple rockcut cave temple of Mahēndravarman I’s time. This ratha is described in the Memoir of the Archaeological Survey of India, No. 33, p. 25 ff.
Language: Undetermined.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv12p0i0015.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is an incomplete inscription recording the construction of a Vishṇu temple by Śatti Aṟiñjigai alias Teṉṉavaṉ Viḻupparaiyaṉ after his own name at Innambar in Innambar-nāḍu, and some provision (details lost) made by him to feed five Brahmans in the temple every day after offerings to the deity.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0100.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is an incomplete and damaged inscription recording the endowment of a land made after purchase and reclamation, by Nakkaṉ’ Kāñjaṉ, a merchant of Tiruppaḻaṉam, for the maintenance of two gardeners employed for the upkeep of the two flower gardens given to the temple by his father Viśākaṉ Nakkaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0101.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is one of severāl earlier inscriptions on loose stones which were lying in the temple and were collected and re-engraved on its walls by the order of the king’s mother Śembiyan-Mahādēvī in the reign of Uttama-Chōḷa, when the temple was rebuilt by her of stone from its original brick structure (M.E.R. 1931, II, 9). It registers a sale of land, free of taxes, executed by the sabhā of Nāraṇakka-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a brahmadēya village of Nallāṟṟūr-nāḍu on the north bank, to the temple at Tirukkōḍikkā.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0102.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription is damaged and the portion from the 5th line onwards is engraved in smaller characters. It seems to record an endowment in land for feeding two Brahmans, a Brahmaṅ woman and some yōgis in the temple every day, made by two ladies Nakkaṉ Kavaḍiyakkaṉ and her sister Nakkaṉ Vichchiyakkaṉ, both daughters of a certain Dēvaṉār of the village. As both these persons also figure in No. 122 of 1931 of the 23rd year of Parāntaka I, the present record is attributed to Sundara-Chōḷa in the M.E.R. for 1931, II. 4. But it may with greater possibility, be assigned to Parāntaka’s son and nearer successor Gaṇḍarāditya.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0103.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: On the south wall, central shrine, Gaṅgājaṭādhara temple.
Year 12: 983 A.D.
This records a gift of 384 sheep for burning 4 perpetual lamps in the temple of Śrī-Vijayamaṅgalattu-Mahādēva at Periya Śrīvānavaṉ-Mahādēvi-chaturvēdimaṅgalam at the rate of ninety-six sheep per lamp by Ambalavaṉ-Paḻuvūr-Nakkaṉ alias Vikramaśōḻa-Mārāyaṉ, who had built this temple in stone.
Published in S.I.I., Vol. XIX No. 314.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv32p2i0103.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: On the north wall, central shrine, Gaṅgājaṭādhara temple.
Year 12: 983 A.D.
Incomplete. Records that Śekkiḻān Araiyaṉ Saṅkaranārāyaṇaṉ alias Śōḻa Muttaraiyaṉ, a native of Kāvaṉṉūr in Paḷuvūr-kūṟṟam in Toṇḍai-nāḍu endowed two vēli, thirteen mā and 1 kāṇi of land under the irrigation of lake Vaḍakuḍi, purchased from the sabhaiyār of Chandaśēri and got the same made tax-free (iṟaiyili). He entrusted the same to the sabhā of Chōḷasūḍāmaṇi-chēri, who were the members of the peruṅguṟiāḷuṅgaṇattār of Periyavāṉavaṉmādēvi for the sake of various services to god Paramasvāmigaḷ of Śrī-Kayilāyam in Periyavāṉavaṉmādēvich-chaturvēdimaṅgalam and also determined the extent of the endowed land that would be required to provide the paddy necessary to conduct each of the various rituals and services.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv32p2i0104.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This records a gift of 90 sheep and a lamp-stand (Īḻa-viḷakku) for burning a lamp in the temple of Tiruvīraṭṭānattu-Āṇḍār at Tirukkōvalūr in Kuṟukkaikūṟṟam, a subdivision of Milāḍu, by Puḷīṣayyaṉ Sāmi Abbai alias Malāḍa-Mādēviyār, the wife of Vikramachōḷa-Malāḍuḍaiyār and the daughter of the Pāṇḍya king. The alphabet of the inscription closely resembles that of No. 8 of 1905 engraved below this, which is one of Rājēndra-Chōḷa I.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0104.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This records a gift of sheep for a lamp in the temple of [Gō]vindapāḍiniṉṟaruḷiṉa-Perumānaḍigaḷ by Sōmaṉ Śaṅkaranārāyaṇaṉ, the headman of Kurukāḍi.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0105.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This inscription records an endowment of some lands made by Bālāśiriyaṉ Bhaṭṭaṉ Śivaṉ Kūttaṉ of Ādanūr, to the temple of Tiruppāṟṟurai-Mahādēva at Uttamaśīli-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, to provide for the maintenance of some servants in the temple, for burning a perpetual lamp before the deity and for the midday offerings. The taxes on these lands were to be paid by the Big Assembly of the village in return for a lump-sum deposit of 50 Īḻakkāśu made with them by the donor. The details of the date given, viz., Mithuna, Tuesday, Chittirai, seem to correspond to A.D. 961, May 28, though they are not enough for verification of its correctness. The inscription may be one of Sundara-Chōḷa.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0106.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This is identical with No. 106 above.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0107.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This registers an endowment of 70 Īḻakkāśu in gold, made in the 3rd year of Parakēsarivarman ‘who took the head of Vīra-Pāṇḍya’ by Dēvaṉ Kuppai of the Vīraśōḻa-teriñja-Kaikkōḷar community (See No. 45 above) to the temple of Tirukīḻkōṭṭattu-Paramasvāmi at Tirukkuḍamukkil, a dēvadāna in Pāmbūr-nāḍu, on the northern bank (of the Kāvēri). Out of the interest on this amount, offerings and worship were to be provided thrice a day to the silver image (of the god ?) set up in the temple by the donor. The reason for this agreement after the lapse of some time is not clear. The inscription being obviously of the time of a Rājakēsari who was the successor of ‘Parakēsari,’ the victor over ‘Vīra-Pāṇḍya’, i.e., Āditya II Karikāla, it should be assigned to Rājarāja I.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0108.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This records a gift of two adjoining plots of land measuring together one mā, after purchasing them from their owners, by Bālāsiṟiyan Bhaṭṭaṉ Śivaṉ Kūttaṉ of Ādanūr (the donor mentioned in No. 106 above) to provide for the supply of śidāri and other ingredients for fumigation during the daily services in the temple of Tirunallūr-Mahādēva at Kāmaravalli-chaturvēdimaṅgalam, a dēvadāna and brahmadēya in Innambar-nāḍu. The inscription also states that the land was made tax-free in consideration of 12 kāśu received from the donor by the Peruṅguri-Perumakkaḷ (Elders of the Assembly) of the village, who met for the purpose before the maṇḍapa heralded by the blowing of a pair of kāḷam. Among the boundaries are mentioned the channel Kōdaṇḍarāma-vāykkāl and the road Śōḻamahādēvi-vadi. Kōdaṇḍarāma was a surname of Āditya I (Travancore Archaeological Series, Vol. III, part I, p, 109), and also of Rājāditya, the son of Parāntaka (No. 318 of 1904). The inscription seems to be assignable to Sundara-Chōḷa Parāntaka II, and the date corresponds to A.D. 961, January 4. The details however, viz, Makara, Friday, Punarvasu, are not capable of verification.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0109.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: King: Prākrama Pāṇḍya Year Śaka 1384, Mithuna 28, ba. di. 13, Monday, Mṛigaśīrisha = 25th June 1462 A.D. but the day was Friday.
This incomplete inscription records the creation of a brāhmaṇical settlement, which consisted of forty eight ma wet land twenty four mā of dry land, named after the prince Sheṇbagarāma pāṇḍyadēvar alias Vīrapāṇḍyadēvar, Vīrapāṇḍyach-chaturvēdimaṅgalam by the king infavour of eighteen Vēdic brāhmaṇas and one brāhmaṇa, who was to read Pañchāṅga. It is also stated that they were to recite Vedas and Purāṇas and read Pañchāṅga before the king.
Besides these, land shares were also set apart to five brāhmaṇas. They were Mālādhara Bhaṭṭaṉ in Śaka 1378, Śrī Kṛishṇa Bhaṭṭaṉ in Śaka 1382, Padmanābha Bhaṭṭaṉ, Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭaṉ Parākrama Pāṇḍya Brahmādarāyaṉ and Kailāśanātha Bhaṭṭaṉ along with the above nineteen brāhmaṇas in Śaka 1384. The latter, Kailāśanātha Bhaṭṭaṉ, was to expound Purāṇas. The inscription also narrates in detail matters relating to the land shares i.e., boundaries, extent and other details. The nativity of these donees, their gōtras and sūtras are also given.
It is evident that each of them was to get two mā of wet land and one mā of dry land.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv38p0i0010.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This records the gift of a silver plate and a pot and also a chauri with gold handle, by Uḍaiyapirāṭṭiyār Śembiyaṉ-Mahādēviyār alias Pirāntakaṉ-Mādēvaḍigaḷār to the temple of Siddhēśvaram-uḍaiya-Mahādēva at Tirunaṟaiyūr in Tirunaṟaiyūrnāḍu. The inscription should be one of Rājarāja I.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv13p0i0010.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary:
Summary: This interesting inscription engraved in the Pallava rock-cut cave-temple on the hill at Tiruchchirāppaḷḷi is dated in the 4th year and 2,501st day of the reign of king Māṟañjaḍaiyaṉ, who is also called Pāṇḍyādhirāja Varaguṇa[varman]. Having destroyed the fort at Vembil (i.e., Vēmbaṟṟūr near Kumbakōṇam), the king was staying at Niyamam at the time of the issue of this record. He is described as an ornament of both the solar and lunar dynasties, probably because of an earlier marital alliance between the Chōḷa (solar) and the Pāṇḍya (lu2nar) ruling families. The king is stated to have made a gift of 125 kaḻañju of gold to the temple of Tirumalai-Bhaṭāra, by which the liṅga in the rock-cut cave is evidently meant. From the fact that provision was made for burning five lamps in this temple on the day of Ārdrā every month, it is probable that Ārdrā was the natal star of this king.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (Original Edition) (south-indian-inscriptions).
DHARMA_INSSIIv14p1i0010.