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Documents 1851–1900 of 6300 total.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lowest inscription on the western wall section of the southern façade of the shrine, engraved on a single stone block. Regnal year 10 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 981 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00512.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the eastern wall section of the southern façade, lowest inscription. 10th regnal year of Kōpparakesarivarman = probably Uttamacōḻa (circa 981 CE). In continuation of the line 4, there is a description of another four lines of a land containing catirattu, vāykkal, kaṇṇāṟṟu, directions, etc. It does not seem to be connected, although it is the same writing.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00513.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Middle inscription on the western wall section of the southern façade of the shrine. Regnal year 12 of Kōpparakesarivarman = probably Uttamacōḻa (circa 983 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00514.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the upper part of the southernmost wall section of the western façade of the sanctuary. Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 984 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00518.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Upper inscription on the lowest stone of the southernmost wall section of the western façade of the sanctuary. Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 984 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00519.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lowest inscription on the lowest stone of the southernmost wall section of the western façade of the sanctuary, in continuation of INSTamilNadu00519 (zone A). It continues on the pilaster on the southern side (zone B). Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 984 CE). There is no svasti śrī at the beginning of this inscription.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00520.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the northern façade, on the wall section between the ardha-maṇḍapa and the sanctuary (zone A). Line 16 is on the vertical ledge below the wall section (zone B). Line 17 is on the horizontal part below the first ledge (zone C1). Lines 18-19 are engraved on the recess, below the first ledge (zone D). Lines 20-30 are engraved on the ardha-maṇḍapa, on the western side of the niche containing Kālārimūrti (zone E), that is, on the left of the previous zones. Regnal year 13 of Kōpparakesarivarman = Uttamacōḻa (circa 984 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00524.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Upper inscription on the eastern wall section of the southern façade. Regnal year 14 of Kōpparakesarivarman = probably Uttamacōḻa (circa 985 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00515.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the lowest part of the base (jagati) of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa. Regnal year 22 of matirai koṇṭa Kōpparakesarivarman = Parāntaka I (circa 929 CE). The inscription does not begin with the expected svasti śrī. The inscription is presently not entirely legible notably because of sprayed cement. ARIE states: “Gives a list of three plots of land, one of which was a gift (by purchase) by Kāḍaṉ-Mādēvaṉ of Ma[da]nakāmīśvarapuram, for providing for offerings to Vijayamaṅgalattu-Mahādēva, the other two being endowments by the assembly.”
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00511.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Upper inscription on the western wall section of the southern façade. Regnal year 3 of Kōvirājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 988 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00516.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Above and around the empty niche of the southern façade of the ardha-maṇḍapa. Regnal year 5 of Kōvirājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 990 CE). This long inscription is unfinished; its end may have been engraved on the eastern side of the ardha-maṇḍapa, now built over.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00517.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the upper part of the base on the western side of the central projection of the northern façade of the sanctuary. Regnal year 7 of Kōrājarājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 992 CE).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00525.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the lowest part of the base of the northern façade: begins on the western side of the gomukha on the ardha-maṇḍapa and continues on the antarala (zone A); lines 7-11 are on the lowest part of the base of the sanctuary, on the eastern side (zone B). Regnal year 7 of Kōrājarājakesarivarman = Rājarāja I (circa 992 CE). There is no svasti śrī at the beginning of this inscription; many passages of this inscription remain illegible, and the translation is thus fragmentary.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00526.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis, Valérie Gillet.
Summary: Record donations by Nakkaṉ of Paḻuvūr, in three parts. Part A records the donation of the village of Neṭuvāyil by Nakkaṉ of Paḻuvūr for the Mahādeva of the Vijayamaṅgala temple that he had built in Vāṉavaṉ Mahādevi Caturvedimaṅgala. It starts with a Sanskrit eulogy and business portion and then describes, in its Tamil portion dated to the 14th year of Parakesarivarman (Uttama Cōḻa, 984 CE), the transaction and the boundaries of the donated village. Part B, which starts on the same line where Part B ends, provides the detail of various provisions to undertake with the taxes and paddy thus donated. Part C details the provisions for a tiruvuṇṇaḻikaippuṟam in favour of the god of the Vijayamaṅgala temple, in force from the 7th year of Rājarāja (Rājarāja I Cōḻa, 992 CE).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0357.
Arlo Griffiths, Eko Bastiawan.
Language: Old Javanese.
Repository: Nusantara Philology (tfd-nusantara-philology).
DHARMA_CritEdKakavinKrsnayana.
Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan, Arlo Griffiths.
Language: Old Javanese.
Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSIDENKKubu-Kubu.
Csaba Kiss, Dániel Balogh.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Siddham (siddham).
DHARMA_INSSiddham01029.
Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Somavaṁśin (tfb-somavamsin-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSSomavamsin00026.
Samana Gururaja, Sastry R. Shama, Rao N. Lakshminarayan.
Language: Kannada.
Repository: Kalyāṇa Cālukya (tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSKalyanaCalukya00005.
Annette Schmiedchen.
Summary: Grant of several plots of land (456 pādāvarta, including one cistern and two wells) in favour of the temple of the Sun-god at Kukkūṭagrāma; also contains the confirmation of an earlier grant.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMaitraka00006.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records donation made by two caste groups - the Kōpālar and the Pōyaṇṭar (palanquin bearers).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00030.
Csaba Kiss, Dániel Balogh.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Siddham (siddham).
DHARMA_INSSiddham02024.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone erected by Peruṅkankar for Kaṅkatiyaraiyar who died at (or near) Veṇkuḻikkōṭṭai.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00086.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00389.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00447.
Annette Schmiedchen.
Summary: Grant of land (420 pādāvarta in 4 villages) in favour of a Yajurvedin.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Maitraka (tfb-maitraka-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSMaitraka00053.
Csaba Kiss, Dániel Balogh.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Siddham (siddham).
DHARMA_INSSiddham02094.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Nāgeśvara temple, Kumpakkōṇam (Kumbakkonam), Kumpakkōṇam taluk & district. On the west wall of the shrine of the Goddess temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00008.
Arlo Griffiths, Ryosuke Furui.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Bengal Copper Plates (tfb-bengalcharters-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSBengalCharters00065.
Ilham Nurwansah.
Language: Old Javanese.
Repository: Nusantara Philology (tfd-nusantara-philology).
DHARMA_CritEdKunjarakarna-A.
Arlo Griffiths.
Language: Old Javanese.
Repository: Nusantara Philology (tfd-nusantara-philology).
DHARMA_CritEdKakavinKunjarakarnaDharmakathana.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lacunose inscription mentioning Kantavārcēni, wife of Ciṅkaṉ.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00360.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of rice for feeding hundred persons on the day of tiruvātirai.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00116.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation of a pond.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00099.
Csaba Kiss, Dániel Balogh.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Siddham (siddham).
DHARMA_INSSiddham01023.
Dániel Balogh.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Siddham (siddham).
DHARMA_INSSiddham00101.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lacunose, decision of the Kūram assembly (sabhā).Keśavaperumāḷ temple, south wall.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00104.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Sale-deed of land in the Pallava-nārāyaṇa-caturvedimaṅgala to members of the ... (āḷuṅ-kaṇattārs) of Avani-nārāyaṇa-caturvedimaṅgala, sanctioned by the assembly (sabhā) of Pallava-nārāyaṇa-caturvedimaṅgala.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00164.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00046.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Name of a Pallava king.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00038.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording a regulation by the king Nandivarman pertaining to a land-grant.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00140.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Śiva temple pillar. Regulation by the Kūram assembly pertaining to four kaḻañcus of gold, apparently received in donation.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00174.
Samana Gururaja, Krishnamacharlu, C. R. R. S. Panchamukhi, N. Lakshminaraya Rao, H. K. Narasimhaswami.
Language: Kannada.
Repository: Kalyāṇa Cālukya (tfb-kalyanacalukya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSKalyanaCalukya00007.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records a gift of the Sethupathi king to the god in Avudayarkoyil.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00028.
Rajat Sanyal, Vincent Tournier, Arlo Griffiths.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Bengal Dedication Inscriptions (tfb-bengalded-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSBengalDed00086.
Csaba Kiss, Dániel Balogh.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Siddham (siddham).
DHARMA_INSSiddham01014.
Natasja Bosma.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Dakṣiṇa Kosala (tfb-daksinakosala-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSDaksinaKosala00002.
Arlo Griffiths.
Languages: Old Javanese, Sanskrit.
Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSIDENKKurungan.
Margherita Trento.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-TN-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00039.
Arlo Griffiths, Eko Bastiawan.
Language: Old Javanese.
Repository: Nusantara Epigraphy (tfc-nusantara-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSIDENKKusambyan.