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Documents 151–200 of 3910 matching.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A Sanskrit verse recording the foundation the cave-temple named Avanibhājana-Pallaveśvara by Lalitāṅkura (Mahendravarman I Pallava) around 600/625 CE.
Languages: English, Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00029.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Pillar inscription recording the construction of a front pillared hall (mukhamaṇḍapa) by Aṭavi.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00117.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Endowment of a tank and a land for the āṇṭārs (devotees) who recite the Tiruñāṉam in the sacred hall (tirukkaikōṭṭi) of the temple of the Lord of the Rājendracoḷīśvara in Mummuṭicōḻanallūr. The following texts are mentioned: Tiruñāṉam, Tirumuṟai and a text, the title of which begins with Tirukka[…]. Ramanatha Ayyar 1927 (p. 24) understands that the endowment applies to the reciters of the Tiruñāṉam, excluding the Tirumuṟai and the Tirukka[…].
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00005.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of land to a temple for daily offerings and worship, for maintaining a perpetual lamp, and for the livelihood of the priest.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00228.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Foundation/Installation of a tēvāram.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00194.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00550.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Hero-stone inscription commemorating the death of a hero (Nāyakar Ataṭṭiyār) and recording a land donation to his son Ceruvaliyār.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00500.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records the donation of an entire maṭam, with its land and people, to the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00049.
Margherita Trento.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00045.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu01007.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Purchase of a village later granted to the God as endowment for festival carried out every Sunday where the goddess is taken out of her bed-chamber, listens to the tiruccaḻal, partakes the food offerings and circumambulates the temple.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv22p0i0165.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This plate records a gift to the Murugan temple in Tirucchendur.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00011.
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.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Statement ownership and/or commission of an oil-press.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00434.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Cave inscription recording the donation of goats for maintaining a perpetual lamp.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00446.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0394.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00205.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv13p0i0049.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0135.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0229.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0230.
Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv13p0i0206.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stele with an inscription recording a donation, after purchase, of a land for supplying ghee for maintaining perpetual lamps.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00144.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stele inscription recording a donation of gold (?) for maintaining perpetual lamps (?).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00181.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Stele inscription recording a donation of land for maintaining a tank. Parameśurāmeśvara temple at Guḍimallam.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00110.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Refers to a quarrel between the Right and Left hand castes which lasted for four years.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv41p0i0204.
Dorotea Operato.
Summary: Gathering of representatives of different villages, comprising members of the Right and Left hand classes, for the punishment of a culprit.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv41p0i0201.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Confirmation of the grant, with exemptions, of a garden in Cillarekakoḍuṁka to 24 Brahmins, and further grant of lands, seemingly in Āpiṭṭī.
Languages: Middle Indo-Aryan, Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00003.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of the village of Iḷaiyāṉ Puttūr as brahmadeya by Parāṅkucaṉ1 to the Brahmin Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭasomayājin of the Bhāradvajagotra.
Languages: English, Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya10001.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Commemoration of a tiruppaṇi ("glorious temple service") by the ascetic Guṇasāgara, disciple of the master Jinasena of the Sena congregation, in Tirumayilāpuri. It is not clear if the inscribed bronze is the tiruppaṇi itself (in which case the record is about the donation / installation of this bronze image) or if the tiruppaṇi was performed in respect of this preexisting bronze image. It is neither clear if Tirumayilāpuri is just the seat of the Sena congregation or also the place of installation of the bronze image.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00002.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Inscription recording the pious donation (dharma) of Buddhāditya. Engraved on the pedestal of a bronze Buddha statue kept in a private collection in Ireland.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00170.
Valérie Gillet, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lakṣmīnārāyaṇa temple, Javantināthapuram, Lālkuṭi taluk, Trichy district. On a stone (perhaps was it a doorjamb originally?), embedded in the right-side cement pillar of the gate. Regnal year 9 opposite to 4 of Māṟañcaṭaiyaṉ, aviṭṭa day, which falls on Monday in the month of dhanus.1 The last syllable of each line is not visible, even on the estampage published in 1940–1950 in EI 28, but can be easily guessed in most of the cases and thus restored in the text in square brackets with an asterisk. The inscription stops abruptly, the remaining part of it perhaps covered by cement.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pāṇḍya (tfa-pandya-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPandya00341.
Emmanuel Francis.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00077.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records the donation of a village in order to maintain a shelter and feed the pilgrims in Kāci (Varanasi).
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00050.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: The grant included a second plate, now lost.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00031.
Margherita Trento.
Summary: This grant records a gift of the Sethupathi king to the god in Avudayarkoyil.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai (tfa-tiruvavatuturai-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTiruvavatuturai00026.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Records the paiement of a tax on the income from a lake.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00127.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Donation of paddy (nellu) for maintaining a tank (ēri).
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00439.
Renato Dávalos, Emmanuel Francis.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: South Indian Inscriptions (tfa) (tfa-sii-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INStfaSIIv19p0i0231.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment. King’s name and year lost, if any. Time of Rājendra II Cōḻa according to Vijayavenugopal et al. 2026, since it is found near INSTamilNadu00803 of that king.
On the jagati of the south base of the mahāmaṇḍapa.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00804.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the base of east wall of the central shrine.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00806.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A carefully engraved wall inscription recording the donation after sale of a land in Kaṇṇamaṅkalam by eight Brahmins to the god Anantanārāyaṇa Paramasvāmi who graciously lies on the serpent bed (aṇai) at Tiruvekkā (Tiruveḵkā) in Kaccipēṭu (Kāñcipuram) for the sum of 367 kaḻañcus of gold.
North wall of the central shrine.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00801.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Lacunose inscription in three fragments. Each line appears to be read in continuty with the corresponding line of the other fragments. Time of Rājendra II Cōḻa, whose meykkīrtti is found a the beginning of the first fragment.
On the jagati of the north base.
Languages: English, Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00803.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: A carefully engraved wall inscription recording the donation after sale of one tūṇi of land by a group of Brahmins and merchants from the mānakaram of Kāñcipuram to the god Anantanārāyaṇa Paramasvāmi who graciously lies on the serpent bed (aṇai) at Tiruvekkā (Tiruveḵkā) for the sum of 127 kaḻañcus of gold.
South wall of the central shrine.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00802.
G. Vijayavenugopal, Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: On the western base of the mahāmaṇḍapa, to the right of the temple entrance.
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00824.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: ...
Language: Tamil.
Repository: Tamil Nadu (varia) (tfa-tamilnadu-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSTamilNadu00201.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Outermost prākāra, slab built in.
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00358.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Fragment comprising a biruda (?).
Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00314.
Emmanuel Francis.
Summary: Ekāmbaranātha temple. Pillar inscription recording a list of birudas of Mahendravarman I Pallava.
Languages: Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Undetermined.
Repository: Pallava (tfa-pallava-epigraphy).
DHARMA_INSPallava00021.