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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.

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Documents 151–200 of 302 matching.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero (name lost), son of Kuruviyār.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00551.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Rock inscription recording the decision of the Kaṇaṭṭārs of Payiṉūr concerning a donation by the merchant Nākaṉ of Uḻakkuṇi, residing at Māmallapuram.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00083.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: ...

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00510.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Grant (paḷḷiccantam) of the village of Śramaṇāśrama/Amaṇcērkkai and of additional lands in Tāmar to Vajranandin of the Śrīvardhamāneśvaradharmatīrtha at Paruttikkuṉṟil for worshipping Jinendra.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00017.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: List of birudas of Mahendravarman I Pallava.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00028.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Building of a mukhamaṇḍapa.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00114.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Foundation inscription of the Maheśvaracūḷāmaṇipallaveśvara by Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava.

Languages: English, Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00062.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: A sanskrit verse in praise of Narasiṁhavarman II Pallava, wishing him a long reign.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00063.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Construction of a shrine, setting up of a cult image and endowment of paddy for maintaining perpetual lamps and for worship.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00159.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold for supplying food-offerings.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00161.

Emmanuel Francis.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00090.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of sheep for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00136.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land for providing food offerings?

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00182.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: An incomplete inscription recording the donation of paddy to a Jaina temple.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00138.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00112.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land for food offerings.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00191.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Imprecation. The inscription is incomplete.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00170.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00193.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: ARIE 2018-19 (p. 85): “Damaged and Incomplete. Seems to record the renovation of sluice in the lake named Kalkili-ēri at Poṟkuṉṟam in Manṭaikkuḷa-nāṭu. Further it refers to the village Putaṉaṭpaṭiyūr Pūtiyūr in Kāntalūr-kūṟṟam of Kīḻvēṇāṭu of Palkuṉṟa-Kōṭṭam. In characters of the 10th century A.D.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00504.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of a crop share to an individual for maintaining the village tank.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00196.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation for food-offering (amutu) to a god’s temple. Fragment.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00483.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold (?) for food offerings to a god temple.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00264.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Grant of four villages (Nelli, Pullūra, Takkāra and Kuḍiūra in the Kīḷveṇātaka in the Palkundakoṭṭaka according to the Sankrit portion; Nelli, Pullūr, and Kuṭiyūr in the Kīḻvēṇāṭu in the Palkuṉṟakkōṭṭam and Takkāṟu in the Maṇalaikuḷanāṭu in the Palkuṉṟakkōṭṭam according to Tamil portion), as a brahmadeya renamed as Nayadhīramaṁgala/Nayadhīramaṅkalam, to 108 Brahmins. In fact only 100 Brahmin donees are mentioned, including the 3 donees added, by afterthought, at the end of the grant, whereas there are 8 further donees, who appear to be officials involved in the transaction and religious dignitaries granted at the same time.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00081.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: A series of names found on a group of rocks. The six first names (A, B, C, D, E, F) are found on the rock locally known as noṇṭi vīrappaṉ kutiraitoṭṭi ("the watering place of the horse of Noṇṭi Vīrappaṉ"), the seventh name (G) on a second rock nearby (G), the eighth name (H) on a third rock in the same place.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00052.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Name of a person.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00487.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: A tax remission transaction apparently.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00236.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land after purchase?

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00183.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Construction of a sluice by Pullayakaṭampaṉ, son of Āritam Pullaṉ.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00079.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Maṇḍapa of the Śiva temple. Names engraved on three pillars.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00359.

Emmanuel Francis.

Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00257.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of sheep for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00240.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of land as arcanābhoga to a temple god.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00237.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Foundation inscription by the Bāṇa queen Satī.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00536.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: An inscription related to a tank.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00148.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Agreement concerning a donation of gold.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00128.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: A Tamil verse recording the foundation of the cave-temple named Catturumalleśvarālaiyam (Sanskrit Śatrumalleśvarālaya) by Narēntirappōttaraiyaṉ.

Languages: English, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00020.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: A Sanskrit verse recording the foundation of the cave-temple named Śatrumalleśvarālaya by Śatrumalla (Mahendravarman I Pallava) around 600/625 CE.

Language: Sanskrit.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00019.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Construction of a sluice.

Languages: English, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00261.

Emmanuel Francis.

Languages: English, Sanskrit, Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00089.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of Kāḷamaṉ.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00202.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00122.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Lake-bund stone inscription recording ...

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00221.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00113.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of 30 kaḻañcus of gold for maintaining a permanent lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00111.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold for a festival celebration.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00145.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Purchase and donation of a land for feeding the god of Tirukkaṭaimuṭi.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00146.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining perpetual lamps.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00137.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold for festival celebration.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00147.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00166.

Emmanuel Francis.

Summary: Donation of gold for maintaining a perpetual lamp.

Language: Tamil.

Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).

DHARMA_INSPallava00194.